{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persons-subject-to-immigration-control-housing-authority-accommodation-and-homelessness-amendment-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1768",
  "legislation_title": "The Persons subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persons-subject-to-immigration-control-housing-authority-accommodation-and-homelessness-amendment-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Persons subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) Order 2000",
  "text": "(1) The Persons subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) Order 2000 is amended as follows.\n(2) In article 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “the 1995 Act”; and\n(b) omit the definition of “limited leave”.\n(3) In article 3 (housing authority accommodation—England, Scotland and Northern Ireland), omit paragraph (e).\n(4) In article 7 (homelessness—Scotland and Northern Ireland) for sub-paragraph (1)(a) substitute the following—\n“(a) the classes specified in article 3(a) to (d) (Class A, Class B, Class BA, Class C and Class D);”.\n(5) For article 8 (homelessness—Northern Ireland substitute the following—\n“The following is a class of person specified for the purposes of section 119(1) of the 1999 Act in respect of Northern Ireland—\nClass T—a person who is an asylum-seeker and—\n(a) who was in Northern Ireland when the Secretary of State made a declaration to the effect that the country of which that person is a national is subject to such a fundamental change in circumstances that he would not normally order the return of a person to that country;\n(b) who made a claim for asylum which is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made within a period of three months from the day on which that declaration was made; and\n(c) whose claim for asylum has not been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been either decided (other than on appeal) or abandoned.”.\n(6) For article 9 (homelessness—Scotland) substitute the following—\n“The following is a class of person specified for the purposes of section 119(1) of the 1999 Act in respect of Scotland—\nClass V—a person who is an asylum-seeker and—\n(a) who was in Great Britain when the Secretary of State made a declaration to the effect that the country of which that person is a national is subject to such a fundamental change in circumstances that he would not normally order the return of a person to that country;\n(b) who made a claim for asylum which is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made within a period of three months from the day on which that declaration was made; and\n(c) whose claim for asylum has not been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been either decided (other than on appeal) or abandoned.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/706, relevant amending orders are S.I. 2005/1379 and S.I. 2006/2521."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1768/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:27.419223+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."
}