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Identity of new partner What are the full name and address for the incoming partner? Is the prospective partner bound by any limits under current agreements or restrictive covenants (eg employment, partnership, joint venture, finance documentation) that could affect their capacity to enter or commit to the partnership? Business details Will the partnership’s business continue on the same basis after the new partner is admitted? Will the partnership’s name change after the new partner has been formally admitted? Will the business premises change at all? If the partnership is registered for VAT, who will notify HMRC of a change in partners for VAT purposes? If the partnership is registered for PAYE and employer’s NICs, who will notify HMRC of a change in partners for these purposes? Will the new partner need to register for employee’s NICs themselves? Partnership agreement and other documentation How does the current partnership agreement address...

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In this issue: UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Business, investment and non-sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q&As UK immigration control: how it works House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee questions HC 556 changes to the Immigration Rules The House of Lords’ Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has raised concerns about Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 556, which brings in two distinct packages of amendments covering the Ukraine Scheme and Skilled Worker/Health and Care visas. The Committee says the Explanatory Memorandum gives poor justification, with a key parallel policy shift on Ukraine left unexplained, and other reasoning described as weak or unpersuasive. On the health and care changes, the Committee flags the absence of impact evidence, arguing this prevents Parliament from performing effective scrutiny. It also notes further omissions...

The Immigration Rules set out comprehensive schedules of actions expressly banned and clearly allowed for visitors of all kinds. When deciding an application for entry clearance, leave to enter or remain as a visitor, the Home Office assesses whether all the proposed activities amount to any banned conduct or sit within the permitted activities for the relevant visitor route and category applied for. Certain activities are only permitted where visitors satisfy further eligibility criteria set out in and detailed within the Immigration Rules, Appendix V: Visitor, paras V 5.1-V 15.4. For more detail and context, see Practice Note: Visitor: eligibility—Additional eligibility requirements for specific types of visitor applicants. Each time a visitor seeks to enter at the frontier, unless using an eGate, they will normally be asked to explain clearly what they plan to do in the UK and for how long in total. A visitor is expected to have, and be able to state plainly, one or more reasons for coming to the UK. Where a person already possesses...

Practice Note Throughout this Practice Note, the expressions ‘leave to enter/remain’ and ‘permission to enter/stay’ are treated as equivalent. The Immigration Rules now use ‘permission’ for streamlined routes, although ‘leave’ continues to appear in other stay categories and in the governing statutes. An individual who holds permission to enter or remain in the UK, and who intends and is allowed to seek further residence beyond the expiry of their present leave, or who plans to move to a different immigration route, will usually need to submit an in‑country application to the Home Office to vary their permission. Permission can be varied: by limiting, extending, or removing the cap on its duration, or by imposing, changing, or cancelling conditions attached to it. See Practice Note: Conditions of permission to enter or stay in the UK for more detail. This Practice Note addresses the following UK‑submitted applications: extensions of stay, e.g. prolonging permission within the applicant’s current immigration route ...

This Practice Note examines the legal and practical outcomes of curtailing and cancelling permission to enter and remain, and their impact. It further summarises the avenues by which curtailment and cancellation may be contested. Advisers should remain alert to the different bases on which curtailment and cancellation could be impugned (for example, for procedural unfairness), so they can shape advice wherever it appears such a step might be contemplated, in any given case and at an early stage. See: The scope of judicial review challenges to curtailment and cancellation. In this Practice Note, the expressions ‘leave to enter/remain’ and ‘permission to enter/stay’ are used interchangeably. Within the Immigration Rules for simplified routes, the word ‘permission’ has replaced ‘leave’, yet the earlier term continues in other categories of stay and in the relevant legislation. Curtailment Curtailment is the process by which the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) reduces the extant permission of individuals already present in the...

1 Introduction 1.1 This policy explains how [ insert name of organisation ] (the Company) will handle the statutory entitlement that permits employees to take unpaid time away from work to organise or provide care for a dependant with a long-term care need, and sets out the steps you should follow if you need to request this leave. 1.2 [ This policy applies solely to employees. It does not extend to agency workers, consultants [ , contractors ] [ , volunteers ] [ , interns ] or casual workers. OR This policy applies to all employees, officers, agency workers, consultants [ , contractors ] [ , volunteers ] [ , interns ] and casual workers. ] 1.3 This policy has been [ agreed OR introduced following consultation ] with [ [ enter name of relevant trade union(s) ] OR [ enter name of works council ] OR [ enter name of staff association ] ]. 1.4 In some circumstances, you may have the right to take...

LR1. Date of the lease [ enter the date in full format DD-Month-Year ] LR2. Title Number[s] LR2.1 Landlord's title number [ s ] [ the title numbers from which this lease is granted. Leave blank if unregistered ] LR2.2 Other title numbers [ existing title number [ s ] against which entries relating to LR9, LR10, LR11 and LR13 are to be made ] LR3. Parties to this lease Landlord [ enter landlord's name and address ] Tenant [ enter tenant's name and address ] Other parties LR4. Property Where this clause conflicts with any other part of the lease, then, for registration purposes, this clause shall take precedence. [ enter details of the Property ] LR5. Prescribed statements etc LR5.1 Statements prescribed under rules 179 (dispositions in favour of a charity), 180 (dispositions by a charity) or 196 (leases under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban...

1 Introduction 1.1 This policy explains how [ enter name of organisation ] (the Company) will handle requests from employees for leave to receive fertility treatment, or to support a partner undergoing such treatment. 1.2 The term ‘fertility treatment’ covers a wide range of medical procedures and interventions designed to help individuals or couples experiencing difficulties in conceiving a child. Options span from taking medication that enhances fertility to more advanced procedures such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. IVF usually includes stimulation of the ovaries to develop eggs, retrieval of those eggs under sedation (the ‘follicular puncture’), fertilising them, and subsequently the transfer of an embryo to the woman’s womb. 1.3 Currently, the law provides no general right to time off for fertility treatment (or to accompany a partner). Nor is there dedicated legal protection currently for those undergoing such treatment. However, a woman receiving IVF is regarded as pregnant for the purposes of the law on pregnancy/maternity from the point at which the embryo is...

Practice Note: Suitability grounds for refusal and cancellation of permission notes that, under the Immigration Rules, Part 9, para 320(7B): Unless an exemption applies, or the relevant re-entry ban has expired, any application made under a route within Parts 2–8, or under Appendix Armed Forces, must be refused where the person has previously breached UK immigration law by: overstaying, unless the overstay was 90 days or less (where it began before 6 April 2017) or 30 days or less (where it began on or after 6 April 2017) and, in either scenario, they left the UK of their own accord and not at public expense Where any of the above circumstances apply, any further application to re-enter the UK will be refused until the following re-entry ban has run: one year, if the individual departed the UK voluntarily and not at public expense—note that those refused entry at port fall within this category, provided they complied with the conditions set...

A Tier 2 (General) migrant (the applicant) must observe any conditions attached to their leave. Examples include no recourse to public funds and a requirement to work mainly for the Tier 2 (General) sponsor named on their Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Supplementary employment is allowed, but only in limited circumstances in practice. See Practice Notes: Applying under the Skilled Worker route and Conditions of permission to enter or stay in the UK. If the applicant will no longer work for the sponsor listed on their CoS, they will not continue to meet the requirements of a Tier 2 (General) visa. This is a frequent basis for mandatory curtailment under the Immigration Rules, Part 9, para 323A(i)(2). Curtailment is the process by which the Secretary of State for the Home Department shortens the existing leave of persons already in the UK. Leave is either curtailed with immediate effect or the remaining period of leave is shortened, usually to a period of 60 days. See Practice Notes: Changes of circumstances and...

The starting point The starting point is that, where the property comprised in the tenancy is, or includes, premises occupied by the tenant and occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by him, or for those purposes together with others, the tenancy benefits from protection under section 23(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954). Save for any right of forfeiture, surrender, or the tenant’s service of a notice to quit, the tenancy can only be ended in accordance with LTA 1954, s 24(1), and otherwise not. The practical result is that, when the contractual term expires, the tenancy continues for as long as the premises remain occupied by the tenant for the purposes of a business, and it does so notwithstanding expiry of the fixed term. However, the parties may agree that the tenancy they are to enter into will not attract the protection of the LTA 1954, and can therefore proceed on that basis...