Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the classes of persons prescribed under section 161(3) of the Housing Act 1996 (allocation only to qualifying persons) as not qualifying for the allocation of housing accommodation and the descriptions, for which provision is made under section 185(3) of the 1996 Act (persons from abroad not eligible for housing assistance), of persons to be treated as persons from abroad who are ineligible for housing assistance. In each case, the effect of the amendment is to except from the test of habitual residence in the Common Travel Area a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption.