1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) (Revocation, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 1st May 2011.
2 In these Regulations—
“the 2004 Regulations” means the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004;
“the 2006 Regulations” means the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006.
S.I. 2004/1219 as amended by S.I. 2006/1003, S.I. 2006/3317, S.I. 2007/475, S.I. 2007/928, S.I. 2007/3012, S.I. 2009/892 and S.I. 2009/2426.
S.I. 2006/1003 as amended by S.I. 2009/1117.

2 Revocation of the 2004 Regulations
Subject to regulation 3, the 2004 Regulations are revoked.

3 Saving provisions
1 The 2004 Regulations shall continue to have effect as follows.
2 Subject to paragraph 3, regulation 8 of the 2004 Regulations shall continue to have effect until 30th April 2012.
3 For regulation 8(5)(a) of those Regulations, substitute “(a) was an accession State worker requiring registration at the date on which the applicant began working for that employer; and”.
4 The 2004 Regulations shall continue to have effect to the extent necessary for the purposes of regulation 7A of the 2006 Regulations as inserted into the 2006 Regulations by regulation 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations.

4 Revocation of other instruments
The Regulations listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 are revoked to the extent set out in column 3 of that table.

5 Consequential amendments to the 2006 Regulations
The 2006 Regulations are amended as set out in Schedule 2.
Damian Green Minister of State Home Office 24th February 2011