{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-etc-scotland-act-2003/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-etc-scotland-act-2003/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/10",
  "legislation_title": "Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-etc-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Inquiries as to intentional homelessness",
  "text": "(1) In section 28(2) (further inquiries in cases of homelessness or threatened homelessness) of the 1987 Act, for the words from “shall” to “(b)” substitute—\n“. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) may, if they think fit, make any further inquiries necessary to satisfy themselves as to”.\n(2) In section 30(3)(a) (notification of decision on intentional homelessness) of that Act, at the beginning insert “where they have made inquiries under section 28(2)(b),”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) omitted (31.12.2012) by virtue of The Homelessness (Abolition of Priority Need Test) (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/330), arts. 2, 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 7.11.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/316, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/10/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:48.794162+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."
}