{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-order-1972/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-order-1972/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1613",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Exemption From Control) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-order-1972",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following persons shall be exempt from any provision of the Act relating to those who are not British citizens, that is to say:—\n(a) any consular officer in the service of any of the states specified in the Schedule (being states with which consular conventions have been concluded by Her Majesty);\n(b) any consular employee in such service as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph; and\n(c) any member of the family of a person exempted under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph forming part of his household.\n(2) In paragraph (1) and in Article 4 any reference to a consular employee shall be construed as a reference to such an employee who is in the fulltime service of the state concerned and is not engaged in the United Kingdom in any private occupation for gain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1) substituted (1.1.1983) by The Immigration (Exemption from Control) (Amendment) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1649), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.1.1973, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1613/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:25:07.566964+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."
}