{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2754",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 1996;\n“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“claim for asylum” means a claim made by a person that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Convention for him to be removed from or required to leave the United Kingdom;\n“the Common Travel Area” means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland collectively;\n“the Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951, as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967;\n“EEA national” means a national of a State which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993; and\n“the immigration rules” means the immigration rules within the meaning of the 1971 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cmd 9171."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cmd 3906."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2754/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:02.027260+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."
}