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Many moons ago, another member of these forums wrote on almost precisely the same point. As that post states, the fine is capped at £1000 in an Act of Parliament.
So, in a sense, your non-compliance would result in the SSHD breaking the law.(4)The regulations must include provision about the destruction of biometric information.
(5)In particular the regulations must require the Secretary of State to take all reasonable steps to ensure that biometric information is destroyed if the Secretary of State—
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(b)is satisfied that the person to whom the information relates is a British citizen, or a Commonwealth citizen who has a right of abode in the United Kingdom as a result of section 2(1)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971.
(6)The regulations must also—
(a)require that any requirement to destroy biometric information by virtue of the regulations also applies to copies of the information, and
(b)require the Secretary of State to take all reasonable steps to ensure—
(i)that data held in electronic form which relates to biometric information which has to be destroyed by virtue of the regulations is destroyed or erased, or
ii)that access to such data is blocked.
In this case, the amount of the fine is capped by Act of Parliament (see the post linked to at the start of this post).
Thanks! I should have found that other post instead of creating a new thread. All very interesting and informative.Many moons ago, another member of these forums wrote on almost precisely the same point. As that post states, the fine is capped at £1000 in an Act of Parliament.
Not sure this makes sense, not to me anyway.secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:23 amThese provisions requiring the BRPs to be returned to the Home Office were made because the law was changed to require the UK government to destroy biometric data it held on British citizens. The BRP holds biometric data and is the property of the government (as are passports and ID cards in most countries around the world).
Correct. As I pointed out above, the law requires the Home Office to destroy the biometric data for all British citizens and all its copies.
I doubt it, as the laws specifically states that they need to be deleted.
I don't think that fingerprints are stored on a British passports chip.
Information contained on UK passports wrote:What information does the chip contain?
The UK’s biometric passports contain a microchip with a ‘facial biometric’. This is a digitised image of the holders photograph. Various features on the face, for example the distance between eyes, nose, mouth and ears, are digitally coded from the photograph and the information stored on the electronic chip.
The chip also stores electronically, the biographical information which is printed in the passport. It does not contain any information which is not also on the face of the passport. The information printed on the passport can be checked against the information on the chip, which is intended to be harder to forge. The information on the chip is encrypted so it can only be read by special biometric passport readers (eReaders).
Gov.UK Guidance: Biometric passports wrote:The electronic chip, which includes the same information as printed on the personal data page, is in the cover.
Legally, they are meant to be destroyed after your naturalisaton ceremony. And you can request a certificate to that effect.