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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-social-security-co-ordination-eu-withdrawal-act-2020-consequential-saving-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1309",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-social-security-co-ordination-eu-withdrawal-act-2020-consequential-saving-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Act 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Schedule 2 (grounds for possession of dwelling-houses let on assured tenancies), in Ground 7B, in the definition of “relevant national”—\n(a) after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) an Irish citizen, or\n(ab) a person who is not an Irish citizen and who has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom which was granted by virtue of residence scheme immigration rules within the meaning given by section 17 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020.”;\n(b) omit paragraphs (b) and (c).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c. 50. Ground 7B was inserted by section 41 of the Immigration Act 2016."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 not in force at made date, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 31.12.2020, see reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2020/1279, reg. 4(c)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1309/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:36.105036+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."
}