The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

New regulation 23A (revocation of admission)

9.  After regulation 23, insert—

“Revocation of admission

23A.— (1) This regulation applies to a person admitted to the United Kingdom under regulation 11 in circumstances where, pursuant to regulation 19(1) (exclusion justified on grounds of public policy, public security or public health), (1A) (person subject to deportation order or exclusion order) or (1AB) (reasonable grounds to suspect that admission would lead to the abuse of a right to reside), that person was not entitled to be admitted.

(2) Paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act(1) (administrative provisions as to control on entry: refusal of leave to enter) applies to a person to whom this regulation applies, as though the references—

(a) to that person’s examination under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act(2) were to that paragraph as applied by regulation 22(2)(a) and (c) of these Regulations;

(b) to notices of leave to enter the United Kingdom were to a decision to admit that person to the United Kingdom under these Regulations;

(c) to the cancellation of such a notice and the refusal of leave to enter were to revocation of the decision to admit that person to the United Kingdom under this regulation.

(3) Where a person’s admission to the United Kingdom is revoked, that person is to be treated as a person to whom admission to the United Kingdom has been refused and regulation 23 applies accordingly.”.

(1)

1971 c. 77; paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 7(1) of the Schedule to the Immigration Act 1988 (c. 14).

(2)

Paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61); paragraph 56 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33); and by S.I. 1993/1813.