{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/701",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Descriptions of persons who are to be treated as persons from abroad ineligible for housing assistance",
  "text": "The following is a description of persons, other than persons who are subject to immigration control, who are to be treated for the purposes of Part VII of the 1996 Act (homelessness) as persons from abroad who are ineligible for housing assistance—\nA person who is not habitually resident in the Common Travel Area other than—\n(a) a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 or (EEC) No. 1251/70;\n(b) a person with a right to reside in the United Kingdom pursuant to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Order 1994 and derived from Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC or No. 73/148/EEC;\n(c) a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption;\n(d) a person who is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or in receipt of income support.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "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": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 142 30.6.70, p. 24, Special Edition 1970 (II) p. 402."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1895, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "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": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L 172 28.6.73, p. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1235",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/701/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:11.019070+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."
}