Note to:All interviewees and locum applicants

Section 8 Asylum and Immigration Act 1996

In order for us to comply with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, employers must make certain basic checks before taking on new staff.

In order to be consistent, these checks have been built in to our normal recruitment procedures – they apply to everyone and they are made at the same time i.e. when you are invited for an interview. You are therefore politely asked to bring to the interview one of the following ‘Specified Documents’ which must relate to you. We will take a copy of the document and retain it for the period of your employment with us, plus at least six months after you have left. If you are not successful the copy will be destroyed along with your application form etc. at least six months after the recruitment process takes place.

The ‘Specified Documents’ are:

  1. A document issued by a previous employer, the Inland Revenue, the Benefits Agency, the Contributions Agency or the Employment Service. This could include a P45, a payslip, a P60, a National Insurance Number card or a letter from one the government bodies listed above. These documents are most commonly provided for checks. A document showing what is known as a temporary National Insurance Number will not be acceptable; temporary NI numbers are made up of the letters TN (temporary number) followed by your date of birth in dd/mm/yy format and the letter M or F to indicate your gender.
  1. A passport describing the holder as a British citizen or as having the right of abode in or an entitlement to readmission to the UK.
  1. A passport containing a Certificate of Entitlement issued by or on behalf of the government of the UK certifying that the holder has the right of abode in the UK.
  1. A certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British citizen.
  1. A passport or national ID card issued by a state which is a part to the European Economic Area Agreement and which describes the holder as a national of that State.
  1. A passport or other endorsed travel document to show that the person named is exempt from immigration control, has indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK, or has no time limit on his/her stay. A letter issued by the Home Office confirming that the person named has such status is also acceptable.
  1. A passport or other travel document endorsed to show that the person named has current leave to enter or remain in the UK and is not precluded from the employment in question or a letter issued by the Home Office confirming that this is the case.
  1. A UK residence permit issued to a national of a State which is a party to the European Economic Area Agreement.
  1. A passport or other travel document endorsed to show that the holder has current right of residence in the UK as the family member of a named national of a State which is a party to European Economic Agreement (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain or Sweden) and who is resident in the UK.
  1. A letter issued by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office indicating that the person named in the letter is a British Citizen or has permission to take employment.
  1. A work permit or other approval to take employment issued by the Department for Education and Employment.
  1. A passport describing the holder as a BritishDependentTerritories citizen and which indicated that the status derives from a connection with Gibraltar.

Thank you

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