{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-enter-and-remain-order-2000/article-13A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-enter-and-remain-order-2000/article-13A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1161",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-enter-and-remain-order-2000",
  "path": "article/13A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13A",
  "heading": "Partners and children of members of HM Forces",
  "text": "(1) Any period of time spent by a person to whom this article applies accompanying their partner, or, as the case may be, parent, who is posted outside the United Kingdom and Islands as a member of Her Majesty’s Forces does not count towards the period mentioned in article 13(4)(a).\n(2) This article applies to a person who has leave—\n(a) as the partner or child of a member of HM Forces under Appendix Armed Forces to the immigration rules (“Appendix Armed Forces”);\n(b) as the spouse, civil partner, unmarried or same-sex partner, or child of a member of HM Forces under Part 7 of the immigration rules; or\n(c) as the spouse, civil partner, unmarried or same-sex partner, or child of a British citizen or person who is settled in the United Kingdom under Part 8 of the immigration rules where that British Citizen or, as the case may be, settled person, is a member of Her Majesty’s Forces.\n(3) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) the reference to a person’s “partner” means—\n(i) in relation to a person falling within paragraph (2)(a), the partner in respect of whom they have leave under Appendix Armed Forces and,\n(ii) in relation to a person falling within paragraph (2)(b) or (2)(c), the spouse, civil partner, unmarried or same sex partner in respect of whom they have leave under Part 7 or, as the case may be, Part 8, of the immigration rules; and\n(b) the reference to a person’s “parent” means the parent in respect of whom they have leave under Appendix Armed Forces, or, as the case may be, Part 7 or Part 8 of the immigration rules.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 13A inserted (18.3.2015) by The Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/434), arts. 1(1), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 13A(1) inserted (30.3.2019) by The Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/686), arts. 1(3), 8(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 13A(4) omitted (30.3.2019) by virtue of The Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/686), arts. 1(3), 8(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1161/article/13A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:45.310525+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."
}