{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2006-revoked/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2006-revoked/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1003",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-european-economic-area-regulations-2006-revoked",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Person refused admission",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person who is in the United Kingdom and has been refused admission to the United Kingdom—\n(a) because he does not meet the requirement of regulation 11 (including where he does not meet those requirements because his EEA family permit, residence card , derivative residence card or permanent residence card has been revoked by an immigration officer in accordance with regulation 20); or\n(b) in accordance with regulation 19(1), (1A), (1AB) or (2).\n(2) A person to whom this regulation applies, is to be treated as if he were a person refused leave to enter under the 1971 Act for the purpose of paragraphs 8, 10, 10A, 11, 16 to 19 and 21 to 24 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, except that the reference in paragraph 19 to a certificate of entitlement, entry clearance or work permit is to be read as a reference to an EEA family permit, residence card , derivative residence card , a qualifying EEA State residence card, or a permanent residence card.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.2.2017) by The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1052), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with savings and modifications for regs. 7A, 7B in Sch. 4 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(a) inserted (16.7.2012) by The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1547), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 16 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) substituted (1.6.2009) by Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1117), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(1)(b) inserted (1.1.2014) by The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) (No.2)Regulations2013 (S.I. 2013/3032), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 20(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2) inserted (16.7.2012) by The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1547), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 16 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (7.4.2014) by The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) (No.2)Regulations2013 (S.I. 2013/3032), reg. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 20(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1003/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:30:34.673807+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."
}