{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-registration-with-police-regulations-1972/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1758",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Registration with Police) Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-registration-with-police-regulations-1972",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“the Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“alien” has the same meaning as in the British Nationality Act 1948;\n“certificate of registration” means a certificate issued in pursuance of Regulation 10(1) to the alien concerned;\n“local register” means a register kept in pursuance of Regulation 4;\n“nationality” includes the status of a stateless alien;\n“registration officer” and “appropriate registration officer” have the meanings assigned thereto by Regulation 4;\n“a residence” means a person's private dwelling-house or other premises in which he is ordinarily resident but does not include any premises in which he is not ordinarily resident.\n(2) In these Regulations any reference to a Regulation is a reference to a Regulation contained therein and any reference in a Regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that Regulation.\n(3) Where an alien has failed to comply with any requirement made by a provision of these Regulations within a period specified in that provision he shall, without prejudice to any liability in respect of that failure under section 26(1)(f) of the Act, continue to be subject to that requirement notwithstanding the expiry of that period.\n(4) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.\n(5) Anything done, or having effect as if done, under or for the purposes of, any provision of the Aliens Order 1953, as amended, corresponding to a provision of these Regulations shall have effect as if done under, or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision and, in particular—\n(a) any register kept under Article 13 of the said Order shall be treated as part of the local register kept under Regulation 4(2);\n(b) particulars furnished under Article 14(2) of the said Order shall be treated as furnished under Regulation 5, and\n(c) a certificate of registration supplied in pursuance of Article 13(3)(b) of the said Order shall be treated as a certificate of registration issued in pursuance of Regulation 10(1).",
  "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. 1960/2214 (1960 I, p. 291)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/1024",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Registration with Police) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1758/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:24:00.318559+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."
}