I am not quite sure that you are right regarding his pubs not having the
authority:
"6. Photocopies of the personal details page of the Passport may be made,
for the purposes of record keeping only, by the following persons:
a.. the holder/owner of the Passport;
b.. notaries, solicitors, banks and government departments;
c.. a person or institution subject to the requirements of the Money
Laundering Regulations, or a person certifying that identification checks
required under these Regulations have taken place;
d.. an employer subject to the requirements of section 8 of the Asylum and
Immigration Act 1996."
I presume that they require it for the last category.
I have recently sold and bought a property - I had to take my passport in to
the estate agent and they copied it - I presume that they would be required
under Money Laundering Regulations. Of course, a property can be sold for
cash and doing so would evade the banking process.
Nick Landau
PS Yesterday I was required to attend an agency in person with my passport
so that they could see that I actually held the original copy of the
passport! Just as well that both I and they were in London.
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Letters of objection[Scanned]
Try
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/copyright-guidance/reproduction-of-the-british-passport.htm
Seems pretty daft to me.
Yes, B & W only.
And Mr Martin and his staff appear to have no authority to make even a
B&W copy.
The things one learns.
Regards
Jim
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Quoting Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]>:
> I think that someone from this list recently sent me a link which
> indicated that it was illegal to make a colour (rather than a B and W
> copy) of a passport.
>
> I have mislaid the email containing the link - I have had a request to
> provide a colour copy of my passport to a recruitment agency.
>
> Doing a search I found an item in the Morning Advertiser website in
> which Tim Martin, Chairman of Wetherspoon, criticises the government as
> follows:
>
> "Citing a rule introduced three years ago to counter illegal
> immigration, he said: "We had to have a colour copy of every job
> applicant's passport, work permit and bills - so every one of our pubs
> had to buy a colour photocopier.""
>
> http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?articleid=22842&categoryid=25
>
> Can someone please clarify the situation for me?
>
> I suspect that the requirement to provide a colour copy mentioned by Mr
> Martin is over-the-top. Unless they have a scanner I wouldn't have
> thought most businesses have a colour copier.
>
> Nick Landau
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