The Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000

Persons claiming right of admission

24.—(1) This regulation applies to a person who claims a right of admission to the United Kingdom under regulation 12 as—

(a) the family member of an EEA national, where he is not himself an EEA national; or

(b) an EEA national, where there is reason to believe that he may fall to be excluded from the United Kingdom on grounds of public policy, public security or public health.

(2) A person to whom this regulation applies is to be treated as if he were a person seeking leave to enter the United Kingdom under the 1971 Act and paragraphs 2 to 4, 7, 16 to 18 and 21 to 24 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act (administrative provisions as to control on entry etc)(1) apply accordingly, except that—

(a) the reference in paragraph 2(1) to the purpose for which the immigration officer may examine any persons who have arrived in the United Kingdom is to be read as a reference to the purpose of determining whether he is a person who is to be granted admission under these Regulations; and

(b) the references in paragraph 4(2A) and in paragraph 7 to a person who is, or may be, given leave to enter are to be read as references to a person who is, or may be, granted admission under these Regulations.

(3) For so long as a person to whom this regulation applies is detained, or temporarily admitted or released while liable to detention, under the powers conferred by Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, he is deemed not to have been admitted to the United Kingdom.

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Schedule 2 has been amended, inter alia, by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71); the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55); the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61); the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60); the Immigration Act 1988 (c. 14); the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 (c. 49); and the 1999 Act.