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  Immigration Bill - Clause 8 - Offence of Illegal Working
  
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  @ MP voted aye against creating it a criminal offence for someone to work if their immigration status prohibits it.
  @ MP voted no in favour of making it a criminal offence for someone to work if their immigration status prohibits it.
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of making it a criminal offence for a person subject to immigration control to work if they have not been granted leave to enter or remain, have overstayed that leave, or are in breach of a condition on that leave that prohibits work.
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 19, page 5, line 2, leave out Clause 8.
  
  Clause 8 of the Bill[2] provided for an offence of illegal working. The offence was defined as:
  
  : (1) A person who is subject to immigration control commits an offence if
  the person works at a time whenâ
  
  :(a) the person has not been granted leave to enter or remain in the
  United Kingdom, or
  
  : (b)the personâs leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdomâ
  :(i) is invalid,
  :(ii) has ceased to have effect (whether by reason of curtailment, revocation, cancellation, passage of time or otherwise), or
  :(iii) is subject to a condition preventing the person from doing work of that kind. 
  
  
  An explanatory note accompanying the rejected amendment stated:
  
  :To omit the clause on the new illegal working offence and maintain the status quo.
  
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/immigration.html Parliament's webpage on the Immigration Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0074/cbill_2015-20160074_en_2.htm#pt1-pb2-l1g8 Clause 8 of the Immigration Bill as at the time of the vote]
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