Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 2899
IMMIGRATION
The Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures)(Amendment No.2) Regulations 2006
Made
31st October 2006
Laid before Parliament
7th November 2006
Coming into force
8th November 2006
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31A of the Immigration Act 1971( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures)(Amendment No.2) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 8th November 2006.
Amendment
2.The Immigration (Leave to Remain)(Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2006( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.
3. For regulation 4 substitute—
“ 4. The form set out in Schedule 2 is prescribed for an application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom:
(a) for work permit employment,
(b) as a seasonal agricultural worker,
(c) for the purposes of employment under the Sectors-Based Scheme, or
(d) for Home Office approved training or work experience,
for the purposes of the immigration rules. ”
4. After regulation 4, insert—
“ 4A. The form set out in Schedule 2A is prescribed for an application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a highly skilled migrant for the purposes of the immigration rules. ”
5. For the form set out in Schedule 2, there is substituted the form which is set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
6. After Schedule 2, insert as Schedule 2A the form which is set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Transitional provisions
7. An application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom:
(a) for work permit employment,
(b) as a seasonal agricultural worker,
(c) for the purposes of employment under the Sectors-Based Scheme, or
(d) for Home Office approved training or work experience,
for the purposes of the immigration rules, which is made on the substituted form shall be deemed to have been made on the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations if made within 27 days of these Regulations coming into force.
8. An application for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a highly skilled migrant for the purposes of the immigration rules, which is made on the substituted form shall be deemed to have been made on the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations if made within 27 days of these Regulations coming into force.
Liam Byrne
Minister of State
Home Office
31st October 2006
Regulation 5
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 6
SCHEDULE 2
1971 c. 77 ; section 31A was inserted by section 165 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) and amended by section 121 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) . Section 31A is prospectively repealed by section 50 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 c. 13 . That provision has not yet been commenced.