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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-restrictions-on-employment-order-2007/article-7",
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  "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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Nothing in this Order permits employers to retain documents produced by an employee or the Home Office for the purposes of article 3, 4, 4A or 4B for any period longer than is necessary for the purposes of ensuring compliance with article 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 inserted (28.1.2019) by The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1340), arts. 1, 2(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 substituted (16.5.2014) by The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Codes of Practice and Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1183), arts. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 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(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 29.2.2008, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "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."
}