{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power for an authorised person to require a person to provide biometric information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 7, where a person makes an application for the issue of a biometric immigration document in accordance with regulation 3 or regulation 3A, an authorised person may require him to provide a record of his fingerprints and a photograph of his face.\n(2) Where an authorised person requires a person to provide biometric information in accordance with paragraph (1), the person must provide it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 25.11.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3048/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:30.508970+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}