{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-wales-order-2015/article-6",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1268",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (Wales) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-suitability-of-accommodation-wales-order-2015",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exceptions to articles 4 and 5 for all types of accommodation",
  "text": "Articles 4 and 5 do not apply where—\n(a) the authority believes that the applicant may be homeless or threatened with homelessness as a result of an emergency such as fire, flood or other disaster, and no other accommodation is reasonably available to the authority; or\n(b) the authority has offered suitable accommodation to the applicant, but the applicant wishes to be accommodated in other accommodation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 27.4.2015, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1268/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:48.360186+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."
}