Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(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(1);

“the 2006 Regulations” means the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006(2).

Revocation of the 2004 Regulations

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

Saving provisions

3.—(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.

Revocation of other instruments

4.  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.

Consequential amendments to the 2006 Regulations

5.  The 2006 Regulations are amended as set out in Schedule 2.

Damian Green

Minister of State

Home Office

24th February 2011