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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-england-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2135",
  "legislation_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations extend to England only.\nRegulation 2 adds a class to the classes of persons subject to immigration control and regulation 3 adds a class to other classes of persons (both prescribed in the Allocation of Housing Regulations 1996) who are qualified to be allocated housing accommodation under Part VI of the Housing Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act ”).\nRegulation 4 adds a class to the classes of persons subject to immigration control (prescribed in the Homelessness Regulations 1996) who are eligible for housing assistance under Part VII of the 1996 Act.\nIn each of regulations 2, 3 and 4, the additional class consists of those persons who left Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect of a volcanic eruption.\nRegulation 4 of the Homelessness Regulations 1996 makes provision as to descriptions of persons who are to be treated for the purposes of Part VII of the 1996 Act as persons from abroad who are ineligible for housing assistance. Regulation 5 of these Regulations excludes, from the description of persons in regulation 4(1)(a) of the Homelessness Regulations 1996, persons on income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance who are not subject to immigration control, so removing their ineligibility under that regulation.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2135/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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