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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persons-subject-to-immigration-control-housing-authority-accommodation-and-homelessness-order-2000/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/706",
  "legislation_title": "The Persons subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persons-subject-to-immigration-control-housing-authority-accommodation-and-homelessness-order-2000",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Housing authority accommodation—Northern Ireland",
  "text": "The following are classes of persons specified for the purposes of section 118(1) of the 1999 Act in respect of Northern Ireland–\n(a) Class M—a person who is a secure tenant of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive or a registered housing association within the meaning of Article 25 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (secure tenancies);\n(b) Class N—a person who is owed a duty under Article 8 (interim duty to accommodate in case of apparent priority need), 10(2) or (3) (duties to persons found to be homeless) or 11(2) (duties to persons found to be threatened with homelessness) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 3.4.2000, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1990 (N.I. 23)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/706/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:04.869955+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."
}