{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-hotel-records-order-1972/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-hotel-records-order-1972/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1689",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Hotel Records) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-hotel-records-order-1972",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) In this Order the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“alien” has the same meaning as in the British Nationality Act 1948;\n“certificate of registration” means a certificate issued, or treated as issued, in pursuance of regulations from time to time in force under section 4(3) of the Immigration Act 1971;\n“keeper”, in relation to any premises, includes any person who for reward receives any other person to stay in the premises, whether on his own behalf or as manager or otherwise on behalf of any other person;\n“nationality” includes the status of a stateless alien;\n“stay” means lodge or sleep, for one night or more, in accommodation provided for reward.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.\n(3) Any information required by this Order to be given by or to any person may be given by or to any other person acting on his behalf.\n(4) Anything done under, or for the purposes of, Article 19 of the Aliens Order 1953, as amended, shall have effect as if done under, or for the purposes of, this Order and, in particular, any information given or record maintained under or for the purposes of the said Article 19 shall be treated as if it had been given or maintained under, or for the purposes of, this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1953 I, p. 94)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1957/597 (1957 I, p. 142)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/1025",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Hotel Records) (Amendment) Order 1982"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1689/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:24:31.175406+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."
}