{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-provision-of-physical-data-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-provision-of-physical-data-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1743",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-provision-of-physical-data-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Regulations:\n“application” means:\n(a)...\n(b)...\n(c) an application for a transit visa (meaning a visa issued to a person for the purpose of arriving in the United Kingdom in order to pass through to another country or territory without entering the United Kingdom); ...\n(d)... ...\n(e) an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom made under Appendix EU to the immigration rules ; ...\n(f) an application for a frontier worker permit under the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020; or\n(g) an application for an electronic travel authorisation pursuant to immigration rules made by virtue of section 11C of the Immigration Act 1971;\n“biometric information” means photographs or fingerprints provided under regulation 3;\n“Convention travel document” means a travel document issued pursuant to Article 28 of the Refugee Convention, except where that travel document was issued by the United Kingdom Government;\n“immigration rules” means rules laid down in accordance with section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;\n“Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and its Protocol.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (27.8.2018) by virtue of The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/928), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1309), regs. 1(2), 32(2) (with reg. 32(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (4.11.2020) by virtue of The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1213), regs. 1(2), 27(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (30.3.2019) by The Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/686), arts. 1(3), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (4.11.2020) by The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1213), regs. 1(2), 27(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (31.3.2023) by virtue of The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.3.2023) by The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.3.2023) by The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1743/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:33.825365+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."
}