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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-and-borders-act-2022-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/571",
  "legislation_title": "The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-and-borders-act-2022-consequential-amendments-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), for the definition of “refugee” substitute, ““refugee” means a person who falls within Article 1 of the Geneva Convention;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/3048, amended by S.I. 2012/594; there are other amendments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Geneva Convention” is defined in regulation 2 of S.I. 2008/3048 and means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the New York Protocol of 31st January 1967."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/571/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:59:47.555662+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."
}