PART 2 U.K.Savings and modifications
Accession member States: savings and modificationsU.K.
2.—(1) Regulations 7A and 7B of the 2006 Regulations (arrangements for accession member States) continue to have effect in relation to any EEA national to whom they applied immediately before 1st February 2017.
(2) Where regulations 7A and 7B continue to have effect—
(a)they do so with the following modifications—
(i)in paragraph (3) of regulation 7A and paragraph (4) of regulation 7B, as though the references to treating periods of involuntary unemployment duly recorded by the relevant employment office as periods of work for the purposes of regulation 5(7)(c) of the 2006 Regulations were to treating such periods of involuntary unemployment as periods of work for the purposes of regulation 6(2) of these Regulations; and
(ii)as though the references to regulations 6(2) (persons who continue to be treated as a worker) and 15 (right of permanent residence) were references to those provisions in these Regulations; and
(b)these Regulations have effect save that regulation 17 (issue of registration certificate) has effect as though, in paragraph (9), for “regulation 24” there were substituted “ regulations 7A and 7B of the 2006 Regulations and regulation 24 of these Regulations ”.