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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-priority-need-for-accommodation-england-order-2002/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2051",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Priority Need for Accommodation) (England) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-priority-need-for-accommodation-england-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Children aged 16 or 17",
  "text": "(1) A person (other than a person to whom paragraph (2) below applies) aged sixteen or seventeen who is not a relevant child for the purposes of section 23A of the Children Act 1989 or, as the case may be, is not a category 2 young person within the meaning of section 104(2) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a person to whom a local authority owe a duty to provide accommodation under section 20 of that Act (provision of accommodation for children in need or, as the case may be, section 76 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (accommodation for children without parents or who are lost or abandoned etc)).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/211), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 50(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/211), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 50(3)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:03.347701+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."
}