{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n“decision-maker” means the Secretary of State, an immigration officer or an entry clearance officer (as the case may be);\n“EEA family permit” means a document issued to a person, in accordance with regulation 10 or 13, in connection with his admission to the United Kingdom;\n“EEA national” means a national of an EEA State;\n“EEA State” means a State, other than the United Kingdom, which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“economic activity” means activity as a worker or self-employed person, or as a provider or recipient of services;\n“entry clearance officer” means a person responsible for the grant or refusal of entry clearances;\n“military service” means service in the armed forces of an EEA State;\n“Regulation 1251/70” means Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1251/70 on the right of workers to remain in the territory of a Member State after having been employed in that State;\n“residence document” means a document issued to a person who is not an EEA national, in accordance with regulation 10 or 15, as proof of the holder’s right of residence in the United Kingdom;\n“residence permit” means a permit issued to an EEA national, in accordance with regulation 10 or 15, as proof of the holder’s right of residence in the United Kingdom;\n“spouse” does not include a party to a marriage of convenience;\n“United Kingdom national” means a person who falls to be treated as a national of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Community Treaties;\n“visa national” means a person who requires a visa for the United Kingdom because he is a national or citizen of one of the countries or territorial entities for the time being specified in the immigration rules.\n(2) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires a reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation of these Regulations; and within a regulation a reference to a paragraph is to a paragraph of that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.571."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 142, 30.6.70, p.24 (OJ/SE 1st Series 1970 vol. II, p.402)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See Appendix 1 to the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 395) laid before Parliament on 23 May 1994; the Appendix was substituted from 4 April 1996 (HC 329) and renamed Appendix 1 with effect from 11 May 1998 (Cmnd 3953), and paragraph 2(b) was substituted from 1 November 1996 (HC 31)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1236",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) and Accession (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1219",
      "affecting_title": "The Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/549",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/549",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2326/regulation/2",
    "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."
}