{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-restrictions-on-employment-order-2007/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-restrictions-on-employment-order-2007/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3290",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-restrictions-on-employment-order-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Excuse from paying civil penalty",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 5, an employer is excused from paying a penalty under section 15 of the 2006 Act if —\n(a) the employee ... produces to the employer any of the documents or combinations of documents described in list A in the Schedule to this Order; and\n(b) the employer complies with the requirements set out in article 6 of this order.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1) substituted (28.1.2019) by The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1340), arts. 1, 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1)(a) omitted (28.1.2019) by virtue of The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1340), arts. 1, 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 3(2) omitted (28.1.2019) by virtue of The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1340), arts. 1, 2(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 29.2.2008, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/700",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/700",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3290/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:59.129888+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."
}