The Immigration (Citizens’ Rights etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

7.—(1) The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4 (retained worker or self-employed person status), for paragraph (5) substitute—

“(5) A person satisfies this paragraph where the person has—

(a) provided evidence that they continue to seek employment or self-employment in the United Kingdom; and

(b) registered as a jobseeker with the relevant employment office.”.

(3) In regulation 24 (amendment of the Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) Regulations 2020), in paragraph (5), in the new regulation 6E to be inserted by that paragraph, for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply to a person if the decision to remove that person was taken—

(a) under regulation 23(6)(b) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016(2) (“the 2016 Regulations”), where the decision to remove was taken before the revocation of the 2016 Regulations, or

(b) otherwise, under regulation 23(6)(b) of the 2016 Regulations as it continues to have effect by virtue of the Citizens’ Rights (Restrictions of Rights of Entry and Residence) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 or the Citizens’ Rights (Application Deadline and Temporary Protection) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.”.

(1)

S.I. 2020/1213.

(2)

SI 2016/1052, amended by S.I 2017/1, 2017/1242, 2018/801, 2019/468, 2019/745 and 2019/1155. The amendments made by S.I. 2019/745 are not yet in force and are revoked by regulation 48 of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 before they come into force. S.I. 2016/1052 is revoked by section 1 of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020.