{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2326",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Right of admission to the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 21(1), an EEA national must be admitted to the United Kingdom if he produces, on arrival, a valid national identity card or passport issued by an EEA State.\n(2) Subject to regulation 21(1) and (2), a family member of an EEA national who is not himself an EEA national must be admitted to the United Kingdom if he produces, on arrival—\n(a) a valid national identity card issued by an EEA State, or a valid passport; and\n(b) either—\n(i) where the family member is a visa national or a person who seeks to be admitted to instal himself with a qualified person, a valid EEA family permit or residence document; or\n(ii) in all other cases (but only where required by an immigration officer) a document proving that he is a family member of a qualified person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified by S.I. 1993/1813, Sch. 4 para. 5(a) (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3707",
      "affecting_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment No. 4) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2326/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:33:45.002761+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."
}