{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-england-order-2003/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3326",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) Article 3 does not apply—\n(a) where no accommodation other than B&B accommodation is available for occupation by an applicant with family commitments; and\n(b) the applicant occupies B&B accommodation for a period, or a total of periods, which does not exceed 6 weeks.\n(2) In calculating the period, or total period, of an applicant’s occupation of B&B accommodation for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), there shall be disregarded—\n(a) any period before 1st April 2004; and\n(b) where a local housing authority is subject to the duty under section 193 by virtue of section 200(4), any period before that authority became subject to that duty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 200(4) was substituted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Homelessness Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3326/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:36:29.971333+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."
}