- Enforced by
- Home Office
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 1 of 4 obligations carry imprisonment (5 years). 2 carry different penalties and 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
Landlord — also bound by 224 other Acts
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
- Employ a worker who is not allowed to work in the UKEmployer
- Provide passenger and crew information to the police upon requestAny Person
- Provide freight information to the police upon requestLandlord
- Obstruct or assault immigration officer exercising powers under section 40Any Person
62 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
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Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Hire your first employee
Step-by-step journey to become a compliant employer. Covers PAYE registration, insurance, right to work checks, contracts, and pensions - everything before your …
Start a tech business
Launch a software, digital services, or technology startup
Start a hospitality business: licences, food safety, and compliance
End-to-end learning path for opening a hospitality business. Covers premises licences, food business registration, HACCP, fire safety, employer obligations, tipping law, and …
Grow your tech business
Scale your tech business - funding, international expansion, investment, and preparing for exit
Start a retail business - compliance essentials
A comprehensive compliance onboarding journey for new retailers. Covers consumer rights, pricing law, age-restricted sales, product safety, data protection, accessibility duties, and …
Run a retail business
Ongoing compliance and operational guidance for established retail businesses
Check someone's right to work
How to conduct compliant right to work checks before employment begins. Includes acceptable documents, online checking service, follow-up requirements for time-limited workers, …
Mandatory hiring requirements
Every employer obligation from pre-hire through the first month of employment. Covers right to work checks, written statements of particulars, employers' liability …
Right to work checks for hospitality employers
Step-by-step guide to conducting right to work checks for hospitality staff, including the three-step process, online checking service, repeat checks for time-limited …
Sponsor overseas workers
Get a sponsor licence to hire skilled workers from outside the UK. Covers licence fees, salary thresholds, Immigration Skills Charge, Certificate of …
10 more guides that reference this instrument
Connected legislation
Instruments made under this Act. They carry the detail the Act delegates.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.