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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-etc-scotland-act-2003/section-7",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/10",
  "legislation_title": "Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-etc-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Application of section 27 of the 1987 Act to refugees",
  "text": "In section 27(2)(a) (circumstances in which residence in a district is not of a person’s own choice) of the 1987 Act, after sub-paragraph (ii) insert\n“or\n(iii) was resident in accommodation provided in pursuance of section 95 (provision of support for asylum-seekers and dependants) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33),”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 30.1.2004 by S.S.I. 2003/609, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/10/section/7",
    "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."
}