The Allocation of Housing (Wales) Regulations 2000

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1080 (W. 73)

HOUSING, WALES

The Allocation of Housing (Wales) Regulations 2000

Made

30th March 2000

Coming into force

1st April 2000

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 160(4), 161(2) and (3), 162(4) and 163(7) of the Housing Act 1996(1) which are now vested in it so far as exercisable in Wales(2).

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing (Wales) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only.

Eligibility for allocation of Housing Accommodation

2.  Regulations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Allocation of Housing (England) Regulations 2000(3) shall have effect in Wales and expressions used in those Regulations shall have the meaning given to them by Regulation 2 of those Regulations.

Revocation

3.  The following Regulations are revoked in relation to Wales –

(a) The Allocation of Housing Regulations 1996(4);

(b) Regulations 2 and 3 of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) Regulations 1997(5);

(c) Regulation 2 of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1997 (6).

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(7).

D. Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

30th March 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

Part VI of the Housing Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) is concerned with the allocation of housing accommodation by local housing authorities.

Under section 160 of the 1996 Act the National Assembly for Wales may prescribe cases in which the provisions of Part VI do not apply.

Under section 161 of the 1996 Act the National Assembly for Wales may prescribe classes of persons who are subject to immigration control within the meaning of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 but who are also qualified to be allocated housing accommodation. Under this section the National Assembly for Wales may also prescribe other classes of persons who are, or are not, so qualified.

Under section 162 of the 1996 Act the National Assembly for Wales may prescribe the information which must be contained in a local housing authority’s housing register.

Under section 163 of the 1996 Act the National Assembly may prescribe what a local housing authority must do before exercising its discretion to remove someone from its housing register.

The Allocation of Housing (England) Regulations 2000 prescribe cases for the purposes of section 160 and prescribe classes for the purposes of section 161. They also prescribe information for the purposes of section 162 and prescribe requirements for the purposes of section 163.

These Regulations provide for those provisions of the Allocation of Housing (England) Regulations 2000 to have effect in Wales, and revoke in relation to Wales the Allocation of Housing Regulations 1996 and Regulations which amended them.

(1)

1996 c. 52.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 2000/702.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2753; amended by S.I. 1997/631 and 1997/2046.

(5)

S.I. 1997/631.

(6)

S.I. 1997/2046.

(7)

1998 c. 38.