Player Registration - Forms C5/P5 (Instructions)
Category 3 - Overseas
Inviting non-UK residents over to play cricket for the season is an IMMIGRATION ISSUE. The Home Office will take any investigation on its contextual merits.
Clubs should NOT be inviting non-UK Residents, whose visas are, by definition, short term, over for the season to play cricket.
Clubs are WHOLLY RESPONSIBLE for ensuring those overseas players who do play for them for the cricket season are ENTITLED to play club cricket in the UK.
The BDCL stance will be: Do NOT take the risk.
In the event of any dispute or query, there is a Home Office Immigration Enquiry Bureau – telephone 0300 1234699 – who will offer informal advice. We understand this advice is verbal and not binding and the recommendation is that clubs should not be spending time trying to adapt Home Office rules to suit their own ends.
The following forms are required to be completed for Category 3 unqualified non-ordinarily resident amateur players. For overseas professional players (Tier 5 Professional), Forms C6/P6 must be completed.
An ‘Amateur’ is a person who engages in a sport or creative activity solely for personal enjoyment and who is not seeking or has not sought to derive a living from that activity. An UNQUALIFIED player is one who has spent fewer than 210 days in the year from 1 April of the previous season to 31 March in the current season as a resident in the UK.
Form C5 is required to be submitted by the Club Chair or Secretary.
Form P5 is required to be submitted by the Player.
Form C5
Form P5
This information is held in confidence by the League Management Committee or the purposes of regulating Category 3 cricketers playing in the BDCL. The information may be shared with ECB, the UK Home Office and HMRC. Submitting this form indicates consent to this; however, as submitting these forms is a requirement under the registration rules of the BDCL, any registration submitted without these forms will be rejected.
Please note that the use of agents to procure a position or any expenses or payment in kind will now work against any decision regarding amateur status.