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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homeless-persons-advice-and-assistance-scotland-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/414",
  "legislation_title": "The Homeless Persons Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homeless-persons-advice-and-assistance-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the types of advice and assistance that local authorities must now provide under section 31(3)(b) and 32(3) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 to homeless applicants and applicants threatened with homelessness who are either not in priority need or have become homeless or threatened with homelessness intentionally.\nRegulation 1 provides that the Regulations apply only to persons who are assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness after the date on which the Regulations come into force.\nRegulation 4 sets out the types of advice to be provided by local authorities to applicants who are found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness.\nRegulation 6 sets out the types of assistance to be provided by local authorities to applicants who are found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/414/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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