{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homeless-persons-priority-need-scotland-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homeless-persons-priority-need-scotland-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Homeless Persons (Priority Need) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homeless-persons-priority-need-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 25 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 lists categories of persons who, if homeless, have a priority need for accommodation and for whom the local authority have a duty to secure accommodation if they are unintentionally homeless. This Order adds a further category, namely persons under 21 who, at any time since reaching school leaving age, have been subject to specified care arrangements involving a local authority but are no longer subject to such care arrangements. The care arrangements in question are specified at article 2(2)(b) of the Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3049/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:00.178897+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."
}