{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-provision-of-physical-data-regulations-2006/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-provision-of-physical-data-regulations-2006/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Process by which the applicant's fingerprints and photograph may be obtained and recorded",
  "text": "(1) An authorised person who requires an applicant to provide a record of the applicant’s fingerprints or a photograph of the applicant’s face under regulation 3 may do any one or more of the following—\n(a) require the applicant to make an appointment before a specified date, which the applicant must attend, to enable a record of the applicant’s fingerprints or a photograph of the applicant’s face to be taken by an authorised person or by a person acting on behalf of an authorised person;\n(b) specify the date, time and place for the appointment;\n(c) require the applicant to attend premises before a specified date to enable a record of the applicant’s fingerprints or a photograph of the applicant’s face to be taken by an authorised person or by a person acting on behalf of an authorised person; ...\n(d) specify any documents which the applicant must bring to the appointment or premises, or action which the applicant must take to confirm the applicant’s identity; and\n(e) require the applicant to provide a record of the applicant’s fingerprints or a photograph of the applicant’s face by electronic means.\n(1A) An authorised person may require an entrant to provide a record of their fingerprints or a photograph of their face upon arrival in the United Kingdom.\n(2) An authorised person may require a record of fingerprints or photograph to be of a particular specification.\n(3) An authorised person who requires an applicant or entrant to provide biometric information may require or permit that biometric information to be provided by automated means.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 substituted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1) omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1)(e) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1A) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 6(3) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1A) modified (27.3.2025) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1813), Sch. 4 para. 5A (as inserted by S.I. 2025/382, regs. 1(2), 24)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1A) modified (27.3.2025) by The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2818), Sch. 2 para. 4ZA (as inserted by S.I. 2025/382, regs. 1(2), 25)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1743/regulation/6",
    "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."
}