Secondary Legislation under Immigration Act 2016

Showing 20 Statutory Instruments linked to this bill.

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 700
Laid before Parliament: 30 June 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Immigration Act 2014 Immigration Act 2016 Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
SI explanatory text These Regulations make amendments relating to the checks of immigration status that must be undertaken by employers, in relation to the employment of employees, and by landlords or agents for residential tenancies, in relation to occupiers or prospective occupiers, for those employers, landlords or agents to be excused from liability for a civil penalty for employing or renting to individuals without valid immigration status.

Immigration, Nationality and Passports (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 311
Laid before Parliament: 18 March 2026
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/330) (“the 2018 Regulations”) which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with immigration and nationality; and the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/660) which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with passports.

Immigration, Nationality and Passport (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 363
Laid before Parliament: 19 March 2025
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/330) (“the principal Regulations”) (which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with immigration and nationality) and the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/660) (which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with passports).

Immigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 573
Laid before Parliament: 30 April 2024
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations bring into force revised guidance specifying matters to be taken into account in determining whether a person would be particularly vulnerable to harm if that person were to be detained or to remain in immigration detention and, if so, whether that person should be detained or remain in immigration detention.

Immigration, Nationality and Passport (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 398
Laid before Parliament: 20 March 2024
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/330) (which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with immigration and nationality) and the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/660) (which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with passports).

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 12
Laid before Parliament: 11 January 2023
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations make amendments to legislation relating to immigration (including access to benefits and services).

Immigration and Nationality (Fees) and Passport (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 15
Laid before Parliament: 11 January 2023
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends Schedule 2 to the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/330) so as to clarify that the waiver of fees otherwise payable by those who fall within the Appendix Temporary Permission to Stay for Victims of Human Trafficking or Slavery to the immigration rules (HC 719) issued on 18th October 2022 applies to all those coming within that Appendix. That regulation also makes consequential amendments to that Schedule.

Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022

Laid before Parliament: 25 April 2022
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text These Regulations set out the fees charged under powers set out in the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) for administering applications for passports. The fees were previously included in the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/414) (“the 2018 Regulations”) which are revoked by regulation 6 of these Regulations.

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) and Licensing Act 2003 (Personal and Premises Licences) (Forms), etc., Regulations 2022

Reference: 2022 No. 242
Laid before Parliament: 9 March 2022
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Immigration Act 2014 Immigration Act 2016 Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 Licensing Act 2003
SI explanatory text These Regulations make amendments to legislation relating to immigration.

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) and Licensing Act 2003 (Personal and Premises Licences) (Forms) Order 2021

Reference: 2021 No. 689
Laid before Parliament: 10 June 2021
Procedure: Made negative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Immigration Act 2014 Immigration Act 2016 Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 Licensing Act 2003
SI explanatory text This Order makes a number of changes to the documents which can be produced in order to evidence an individual’s right to work in the United Kingdom or enter into a tenancy agreement in England.

Immigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2021

Reference: 2021 No. 184
Laid before Parliament: 25 February 2021
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations bring into force revised guidance specifying matters to be taken into account in determining whether a person would be particularly vulnerable to harm if that person were to be detained or to remain in immigration detention and, if so, whether that person should be detained or remain in immigration detention.

Immigration and Nationality (Replacement of Tier 4 and Fees) and Passport (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Reference: 2020 No. 966
Laid before Parliament: 10 September 2020
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Part V Exemption: Licensed Sponsors Tiers 2 and 4) Order 2009 (“the 2009 Order”), the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (“the Immigration Fees Regulations”) and the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2018 (“the Passport Fees Regulations”).

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018

Reference: 2018 No. 1340
Laid before Parliament: 13 December 2018
Procedure: Made negative
Parliament Page Legislation Text
Enabling Acts
Immigration Act 2016 Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
SI explanatory text An employer is excused from paying a penalty under section 15 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13) if the employee produces to the employer any of the documents described in the Schedule to the Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/3290) (“the 2007 Order”) and if the employer complies with the requirements prescribed under article 6 of that Order.

Immigration (Alcohol Licensing and Late Hours Catering) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Laid before Parliament: 28 March 2018
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text These Regulations extend to Scotland and are made under section 36 of the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) (“the 2016 Act”), which allows regulations to make provision for Scotland which has similar effect to that which Schedule 4 to the 2016 Act makes for England and Wales. Schedule 4 to the 2016 Act makes amendments to the Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17) relating to illegal working. These Regulations make similar effect by amending the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 16) (“the 2005 Act”) and the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45) (“the 1982 Act”). These Regulations place restrictions on the holding of alcohol or late night catering licences by people who are not entitled to work in the United Kingdom, or people who have been convicted of immigration offences or required to pay immigration penalties.

Immigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2018

Reference: 2018 No. 410
Laid before Parliament: 27 March 2018
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text These Regulations bring into force revised guidance specifying matters to be taken into account in determining whether a person would be particularly vulnerable to harm if that person were to be detained or to remain in detention and, if so, whether that person should be detained or remain in detention.

Passport (Fees) Regulations 2018

Laid before Parliament: 29 January 2018
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text These Regulations set out the fees charged under powers set out in the Immigration Act 2016 for the administering of applications for passports. The fees were previously included in the Consular Fees Order 2012, the relevant part of which (Part 2 of the table in Schedule 1 (table of Consular Fees Relating to Passport Services)) is revoked by these regulations.

Immigration Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) (Licensing of Booking Offices: Scotland) Regulations 2017

Reference: 2017 No. 1317
Laid before Parliament: 20 December 2017
Procedure: Made negative
SI explanatory text The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Booking Offices) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/145) (“the 2009 Order”) designates the use of premises for the carrying on of a business, part of which consists of taking bookings from members of the public for the hire of taxis or private hire cars, as an activity for which a licence is required under the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45) (“the 1982 Act”). The 2009 Order provides that the licensing provisions in Part I of the 1982 Act will apply to these licences (“booking office licences”) with such modifications as set out in the Schedule to that Order. The licensing regime does not apply if the number of vehicles for which the bookings are taken is less than four.

Immigration Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) (Immigration Bail) Regulations 2017

Reference: 2017 No. 1242
Laid before Parliament: 11 December 2017
Procedure: Made negative

Transfer of Responsibility for Relevant Children (Extension to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2017

Laid before Parliament: 7 December 2017
Procedure: Draft affirmative
SI explanatory text Section 69 of the Immigration Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”) allows local authorities in England to transfer responsibility for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to other local authorities in England. These Regulations extend that provision so that local authorities in any part of the United Kingdom may transfer responsibility for such children to local authorities in any part of the United Kingdom.

Immigration Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017

Reference: 2017 No. 931
Laid before Parliament: 21 September 2017
Procedure: Made negative