{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-wales-order-2006/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-wales-order-2006/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/650",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) Article 5 does not apply where—\n(a) the person occupies a basic standard B&B for a period, or a total of periods, which does not exceed 2 weeks;\n(b) the person occupies a higher standard B&B for a period or a total of periods which does not exceed 6 weeks;\n(c) the person occupies a basic standard small B&B for a period or a total of periods which does not exceed 6 weeks, and the local housing authority has, before the expiry of the two-week period referred to in sub-paragraph (a), offered suitable alternative accommodation, but the person has chosen to remain in the said B&B;\n(d) the person occupies a basic standard small B&B after exercising the choice referred to in sub-paragraph (c) above, and the local housing authority has offered suitable alternative accommodation before the end of the six-week period referred to in sub-paragraph (c) above, but the person has chosen to remain in the said B&B; or\n(e) the person occupies a higher standard small B&B, and the local housing authority has offered suitable alternative accommodation, before the expiry of the six-week period referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above, but the person has chosen to remain in the said B&B.\n(2) If the suitable alternative accommodation offered for the purposes of paragraph (1) is shared, it must meet the higher standard.\n(3) In the case of households with dependant children or a pregnant woman, the offer made under sub-paragraphs (d) or (e) must be of suitable self-contained accommodation. In the case of an applicant who is a minor, the offer must be of suitable accommodation with support.\n(4) In calculating a period, or total period, of a person’s occupation of B&B accommodation for the purposes of paragraph (1), there must be disregarded—\n(a) any period before 2 April 2007; 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": "See the definition of local housing authority in section 230 Housing Act 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "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/wsi/2006/650/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:19.570013+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."
}