{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-isles-of-scilly-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-isles-of-scilly-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/797",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Isles of Scilly) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-isles-of-scilly-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order modifies Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (homelessness) as it relates to the Isles of Scilly.\nIt provides that a person is not eligible for assistance in the Isles of Scilly if he has not been resident there for a period of two years and six months during the period of three years immediately before his application. Where a person is not excluded from assistance under that provision, he will have a local connection with the district of that authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/797/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:04.350721+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."
}