This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2016/603 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 712
Immigration
The Immigration Act 2016 (Transitional Provision) Regulations 2016
Made
5th July 2016
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 92(1) of the Immigration Act 2016( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Act 2016 (Transitional Provision) Regulations 2016.
Offence of illegal working: transitional provision
2. Where a person is at large in the United Kingdom by virtue of paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971( 2 ) (temporary admission or release from detention)—
(a) the person is to be treated for the purposes of section 24B(2) of the Immigration Act 1971( 3 ) as if the person had been granted leave to enter the United Kingdom, but
(b) any restriction as to employment imposed under paragraph 21(2) is to be treated for those purposes as a condition of leave.
James Brokenshire
Minister of State
Home Office
5th July 2016
Section 24B of the Immigration Act 1971 is inserted by section 34(3) of the Immigration Act 2016.