{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-amendment-england-order-2022/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-amendment-england-order-2022/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/521",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (Amendment) (England) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-amendment-england-order-2022",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modification of the Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003 is to be read in accordance with the modifications in paragraph (2).\n(2) Article 4 (exceptions to article 3) is to be read as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(b), at the beginning, there were inserted “except where the applicant is a person falling within paragraph (3),”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) there were inserted—\n“(3) A person falls within this paragraph if they—\n(a) make an application to a local housing authority for assistance under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 on or after 1st June 2022,\n(b) make that application within 2 years beginning with the date on which they arrive in the United Kingdom,\n(c) are eligible for assistance under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996, and\n(d) did not have a right to occupy accommodation in the United Kingdom for an uninterrupted period of 6 months or more in the 3 years prior to the date on which they arrived in the United Kingdom.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 1.6.2022, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/521/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:00:20.831083+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."
}