Part VI Support for Asylum-Seekers

Exclusions

119 Homelessness: Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(1)

A person subject to immigration control—

(a)

is not eligible for accommodation or assistance under the homelessness provisions, and

(b)

is to be disregarded in determining for the purposes of those provisions, whether F1a person falling within subsection (1A)—

(i)

is homeless or is threatened with homelessness, or

(ii)

has a priority need for accommodation,

unless he is of a class specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.

F2(1A)

A person falls within this subsection if the person—

(a)

falls within a class specified in an order under subsection (1); but

F3(b)

is not a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was—

(i)

a national of an EEA State or Switzerland, and

(ii)

within a class specified in an order under subsection (1) which had effect at that time.

(2)

An order under subsection (1) may not be made so as to include in a specified class any person to whom section 115 applies.

(3)

“The homelessness provisions” means—

(a)

in relation to Scotland, Part II of the M1Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; and

(b)

in relation to Northern Ireland, Part II of the M2Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988.

(4)

“Person subject to immigration control” has the same meaning as in section 118.