The Immigration (Certificate of Entitlement to Right of Abode in the United Kingdom) Regulations 2006

Issue of certificate of entitlement

6.  A certificate of entitlement will only be issued where the appropriate authority is satisfied that the applicant—

(a) has a right of abode in the United Kingdom under section 2(1) of the 1971 Act(1);

(b) is not a person who holds:

(i) a United Kingdom passport describing him as a British citizen,

(ii) a United Kingdom passport describing him as a British subject with the right of abode in the United Kingdom,

(iii) an ID card issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006(2) describing him as a British citizen, or

(iv) an ID card issued under that Act describing him as a British subject with the right of abode in the United Kingdom;

(c) is not a person whose exercise of his right of abode is restricted under section 2 of the Immigration Act 1988(3) (restrictions on exercise of right of abode in cases of polygamy); and

(d) is not a person who is deprived of his right of abode by an order under section 2A of the 1971 Act(4).

(1)

As substituted by section 39(2) of the 1981 Act.

(2)

2006 c. 15.

(3)

1988 c. 14.

(4)

Section 2A was inserted by section 57(1) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.