{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2000/regulation-27",
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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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part VII",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the 1997 Act” means the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997;\n“adjudicator” and “Commission” have the same meaning as in the 1999 Act;\n“Refugee Convention” has the same meaning as in the 1999 Act.\n(2) In this Part, “EEA decision” means a decision under these Regulations, or under Regulation 1251/70, which concerns a person's—\n(a) removal from the United Kingdom;\n(b) entitlement to be admitted to the United Kingdom; or\n(c) entitlement to be issued with or to have renewed, or not to have revoked, a residence permit or residence document.\n(3) For the purposes of this Part, a decision-maker acts in breach of a person’s human rights if he acts, or fails to act, in relation to that other person in a way which is made unlawful by section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/865",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area)(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2326/regulation/27",
    "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."
}