Powers relating to verification of identity or status
The Home Office has powers to prescribe right to work and right to rent checks for employers and landlords to follow, in order to obtain a statutory excuse (defence) against a civil penalty for employing or renting to a disqualified person. A disqualified person is a person who is prevented from working or renting due to their immigration status. A person specified in an illegal working compliance order may also be required to carry out right to work checks in order to comply with the terms of an illegal working compliance order.
	This Act amends powers in the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, the Immigration Act 2014 and the Immigration Act 2016 so that the Home Office can require by way of orders or regulations for employers, landlords and persons (where they choose to carry out certain digital checks in place of manual checks) to use the services of organisations registered as complying with designated supplementary rules concerning the provision of these services.