The Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2447

IMMIGRATION

The Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003

Made

24th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

26th September 2003

Coming into force

20th October 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 122 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002(1), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 20th October 2003.These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Employment Document (Fees) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 20th October 2003.

2.—(1) The Immigration Employment Document (Fees) Regulations 2003(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4, after “4B,” there shall be inserted “4C,”.

(3) After regulation 4B, there shall be inserted:

“Fee in relation to an application made in respect of a seasonal agricultural worker

4C.   Subject to regulation 5(a), an application made in respect of a person seeking to enter, or remain, in the United Kingdom as a seasonal agricultural worker under the immigration rules shall be accompanied by a fee of £12.”.

(4) In regulation 5, paragraph (c) and the word “or” immediately before it are hereby revoked.

Beverley Hughes

Minister of State

Home Office

24th September 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Immigration Employment Document (Fees) Regulations 2003 in two ways. Firstly, by inserting a new regulation 4(c) in the earlier Regulations, they provide that an application for an immigration employment document made in respect of a person seeking to enter, or remain, in the United Kingdom as a seasonal agricultural worker under the immigration rules shall be accompanied by a fee of £12 (regulation 2(3)). This requirement does not apply to an application for an immigration employment document made in respect of a citizen or national of an excepted country.

Secondly, to reflect this new fee, the Regulations delete an application made in respect of a person seeking to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as a seasonal agricultural worker under the immigration rules from the exceptions from the requirement to pay a fee (regulation 2(4)).

A Regulatory Impact Assessment in respect of these Regulations can be obtained from Work Permits (UK) by e-mail ([e-mail]), by telephone [phone]), or by visiting the Work Permits (UK) website (www.workpermits.gov.uk).

(1)

2002 c. 41.

(2)

S.I. 2003/541; amended by S.I. 2003/1277.