Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Global Entry Scheme (Screening Process) (Fees) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“Arrangement” means the arrangement between the Home Office and the United States Department of Homeland Security and United States Customs and Border Protection, by which the former agrees to conduct the Screening Process;

“Global Entry Scheme” means the scheme, operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security and United States Customs and Border Protection, by which members of the scheme obtain certain benefits, including expedited entry into the territory of the United States of America; and

“Screening Process” means the preliminary assessment of an applicant, undertaken by the Home Office at the applicant’s request, in order to establish certain matters connected to the applicant’s suitability (or otherwise) for membership (and continued membership) of the Global Entry Scheme.

Global Entry Scheme (Screening Process) Fee

3. —(1) Paragraph (2) prescribes the fee payable by an applicant requesting that the Home Office conducts the Screening Process, in pursuance of the Home Office’s obligations arising from the Arrangement.

(2) The fee mentioned in paragraph (1) is £42.

(3) A request of the type mentioned in paragraph (1) must not be considered unless it is accompanied by the prescribed fee.