{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Process by which an individual’s fingerprints and photograph may be obtained and recorded",
  "text": "(1) An authorised person who requires an individual to provide a record of the individual’s fingerprints or a photograph of the individual’s face under regulation 5 may do any one or more of the following—\n(a) require the individual to make an appointment before a specified date, which the individual must attend, to enable a record of the individual’s fingerprints or a photograph of the individual’s face to be taken by an authorised person or by a person acting on behalf of an authorised person;\n(b) specify the date, time and place for the appointment;\n(c) require the individual to attend premises before a specified date to enable a record of the individual’s fingerprints or a photograph of the individual’s face to be taken by an authorised person or by a person acting on behalf of an authorised person; ...\n(d) specify any documents which the individual must bring to the appointment or premises, or action which the individual must take to confirm the individual’s identity ; and\n(e) require the individual to provide a record of the individual’s fingerprints or a photograph of the individual’s face by electronic means.\n(2) An authorised person may require a record of fingerprints or photograph to be of a particular specification.\n(3) Where an authorised person requires an individual to submit to any requirement in accordance with paragraph (1), the individual must submit to it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 substituted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 16(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1)(d) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 16(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1)(e) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 16(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3048/regulation/8",
    "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."
}