{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-prescribed-forms-and-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-prescribed-forms-and-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1421",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Leave to Remain) (Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-prescribed-forms-and-procedures-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations:\n“asylum claimant” means a person making a claim for asylum (within the meaning given in section 94(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999) which claim either has not been determined or has been granted;\n“dependant”, of a person, means—\n(a) the spouse, civil partner, unmarried partner or same sex partner, or\n(b) a child under the age of eighteen,\nof that person; and\n“public enquiry office” means a public enquiry office of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1421/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:28:25.058151+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."
}