The Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004

Registration card and registration certificate

8.—(1) An application for a registration certificate authorising an accession State worker requiring registration to work for an employer may only be made by an applicant who is working for that employer at the date of the application.

(2) The application shall be in writing and shall be made to the Secretary of State.

(3) The application shall state —

(a) the name, address, and date of birth of the applicant;

(b) the name and address of the head or main office of the employer;

(c) the date on which the applicant began working for that employer;

(d) where the applicant has been issued with a registration card, the reference number of that card.

(4) Unless the applicant has been issued with a registration card under paragraph (5), the application shall be accompanied by —

(a) a registration fee of £50;

(b) two passport size photographs of the applicant;

(c) the applicant’s national identity card or passport issued by the applicant’s State;

(d) a letter from the employer concerned confirming that the applicant began working for the employer on the date specified in the application.

(5) In the case of an application by an applicant who has not been issued with a registration card under this paragraph, the Secretary of State shall, where he is satisfied that the application is made in accordance with this regulation and that the applicant —

(a) is an accession State worker requiring registration; and

(b) began working for the employer on the date specified in the application,

send the applicant a registration card and a registration certificate authorising the worker to work for the employer specified in the application, and shall return the applicant’s national identity card or passport.

(6) In the case of any other application, the Secretary of State shall, if he is satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (5), send the applicant a registration certificate authorising the worker to work for the employer specified in the application.

(7) A registration card issued under paragraph (5) shall contain —

(a) the name, nationality and date of birth of the applicant;

(b) a photograph of the applicant;

(c) a reference number.

(8) A registration certificate issued under paragraph (5) or (6) shall contain —

(a) the name of the applicant;

(b) the reference number of the applicant’s registration card;

(c) the name and address of the head or main office of the employer, as specified in the application;

(d) the date on which the applicant began working for the employer, as specified in the application; and

(e) the date on which the certificate is issued.

(9) Where the Secretary of State receives an application made in accordance with this regulation and he is not satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (5), he shall —

(a) send the applicant a notice of refusal; and

(b) return any documents and fee that accompanied the application to the applicant.

(10) Where the Secretary of State sends a registration certificate or notice of refusal to an applicant under this regulation he shall, at the same time, send a copy of the certificate or notice to the employer concerned at the address specified in the application for that employer.

(11) Certificates and notices, and copies of these documents, sent under this regulation shall be sent by post.