{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2754",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Descriptions of persons who are to be treated as persons from abroad ineligible for housing assistance",
  "text": "The following are the descriptions of persons who are to be treated for the purposes of Part VII of the Act as persons from abroad who are ineligible for housing assistance —\n(a) a person who is not habitually resident in the Common Travel Area other than —\n(i) a person who falls within Class A, B, C, D or E of regulation 3;\n(ii) a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 or (EEC) No. 1251/70;\n(iii) a person with a right to reside in the United Kingdom pursuant to Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC or No. 73/148/EEC;\n(b) a person who is an EEA national and is required by the Secretary of State to leave the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 254 18.10.68, p. 2, Special Edition 1968 (II) p. 475."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 142 1.7.70, p. 24, Special Edition 1970 (II) p. 402."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L 257 18.10.68, p. 13, Special Edition 1968 (II) p. 485."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 172 28.6.73, p. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/631",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2135",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2046",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2754/regulation/4",
    "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."
}