{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/polish-resettlement-act-1947/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/polish-resettlement-act-1947/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/19",
  "legislation_title": "Polish Resettlement Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/polish-resettlement-act-1947",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "†Allowances from the Assistance Board.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The said categories are—\n(a) Poles whose registration under the Aliens Order,S.R. & O. 1920/448.1920, took place on or after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and who have been permitted to enter, or to remain in, the United Kingdom in view of circumstances attributable to war, as to which, in case of doubt, a certificate of the Secretary of State shall be conclusive;\n(b) former members of any of the forces mentioned in subsection (1) of section one of this Act (including the naval detachment therein mentioned), and members of any of those forces relegated from service therewith;\n(c) wives or civil partners of persons of categories (a) and (b), and any person who, having been the wife or civil partner of a person of either of those categories, has ceased to be, and has not subsequently married or formed a civil partnership;\n(d) persons who have been permitted to enter the United Kingdom on or after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, as being followers of a body of Polish forces entering the United Kingdom and dependent thereon or on members thereof, as to which, in case of doubt, a certificate of the Secretary of State shall be conclusive.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 2(1)(3)(4), Sch. Part I repealed by National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29), Sch. 7 Pt. III and Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(2)(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 18(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(2)(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 18(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(2)(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 18(c); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(2)(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 18(d); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The categories specified in s. 2(2) are categories of persons for whom benefits may be provided under s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/19/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:09.637467+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."
}