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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1235",
  "legislation_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Allocation of housing",
  "text": "In the Allocation of Housing (England) Regulations 2002, for regulation 5 (classes prescribed under section 160A(5) who are ineligible persons) substitute—\n“Classes of persons from abroad who are ineligible for a housing allocation\n5. (1) The following are classes of persons from abroad (not being persons subject to immigration control) prescribed for the purposes of section 160A(5) of the Act (persons prescribed as ineligible for an allocation of housing accommodation)—\n(a) Class E - subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland;\n(b) Class F - a person whose right to reside in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland is derived solely from Council Directive No. 90/364/EEC or Council Directive No. 90/365/EEC .\n(2) The following persons shall not, however, be ineligible pursuant to paragraph (1)(a)—\n(a) a person who is a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 or (EEC) No. 1251/70;\n(b) a person who is an accession state worker requiring registration who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 5(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000 pursuant to regulation 5 of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004;\n(c) a person with a right to reside pursuant to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000, which is derived from Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC, No. 73/148/EEC or No. 75/34/EEC;\n(d) a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption.\n(3) A person shall not be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland for the purposes of paragraph (1) (a) if he does not have a right to reside in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3264."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L.180, 13.7.90, p.26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L.180, 13.7.90. p.28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L.257, 19.10.68, p.2, Special Edition 1968(II) p.475, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L.142, 30.6.70, p. 24 Special Edition 1970 (II) p.402."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2326; amended by S.I. 2001/865, 2003/549 and 2004/1219."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1219."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "OJ No. L.257, 19.10.68, p.13, Special Edition 1968 (II) p.485, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "OJ No. L.172, 28.6.73, p.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "OJ No. L.014, 20.01.75, p.10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1235/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:42.622588+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}