The Accession (Worker Authorisation and Worker Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Amendment of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004

3.  In regulation 2 of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004(1) (“Accession State worker requiring registration”) —

(a) after paragraph (5) insert the following paragraph —

“(5A) A national of a relevant accession State is not an accession State worker requiring registration during any period in which he is a member of a mission or other person mentioned in section 8(3) of the 1971 Act (member of a diplomatic mission, the family member of such a person, or a person otherwise entitled to diplomatic immunity), other than a person who, under section 8(3A) of that Act, does not count as a member of a mission for the purposes of section 8(3).”;

(b) in paragraph (6)(b), for sub-paragraph (iii) substitute—

“(iii) an accession State national subject to worker authorisation who only has a right to reside under regulation 13 of those Regulations or under regulation 14 of those Regulations by virtue of being treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations.”;

(c) in paragraph (7)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after sub-paragraph (i) insert the following paragraph—

“(ia) he was exempt from the provisions of the 1971 Act by virtue of section 8(3) of that Act; or”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “paragraph (5) or (6)” substitute “paragraph (5), (5A) or (6)”.

(1)

S.I. 2004/1219; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2006/3317 and S.I. 2007/475.