Homelessness Act 2002

Homelessness reviews and strategies

1 Duty of local housing authority to formulate a homelessness strategy

2 Homelessness reviews

3 Homelessness strategies

4 Sections 1 to 3: interpretation

Other functions relating to homelessness

5 Provision of accommodation for persons not in priority need who are not homeless intentionally

6 Abolition of minimum period for which an authority is subject to main homelessness duty

7 Events which cause the main homelessness duty to cease

8 Review of decisions as to suitability of accommodation

9 Abolition of duty under section 197

10 Persons claiming to be homeless who are at risk of violence

11 Section 204(4): appeals

12 Co-operation in certain cases involving children

Allocations under Part 6 of the Housing Act 1996

13 Application of Part 6 to existing tenants

14 Abolition of duty to maintain housing register

15 Applications for housing accommodation

16 Allocation schemes

18 Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

19 Financial provision

20 Commencement, transitional provision and general saving

21 Short title, extent and application to Isles of Scilly

SCHEDULE 1Minor and consequential amendments

1Housing Act 1985 (c. 68)

2Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)

3(1) In section 161 (allocation only to qualifying persons), for...

4In section 168(3) (information about allocation schemes), for the words...

5In section 170 (co-operation between registered social landlords and local...

6In section 174 (index of defined expressions), after the entry...

7(1) In section 185 (persons from abroad not eligible for...

8In section 188(3) (interim duty to accommodate in case of...

9In section 190(2)(b) and (3) (provision of advice and assistance),...

10At the end of section 190 there is inserted—

11In section 192(2) (provision of advice and assistance), for the...

12After subsection (3) of section 192 (as inserted by section...

13In section 193 (duty to persons with priority need who...

14In section 195 (duties in case of threatened homelessness)—

15In section 200 (cases considered for referral to another local...

16In section 202(1)(b) (right to request review of decision), for...

17In section 204 (right of appeal to county court)—

18In section 205(2) (meaning of the authority’s “housing functions under...

19For section 209 (discharge of duties through arrangements with private...

20In section 217(1) (minor definitions) before the definition of “relevant...

21In section 218 (index of defined expressions)—

SCHEDULE 2Repeals

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Homelessness Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 7

An Act to make further provision about the functions of local housing authorities relating to homelessness and the allocation of housing accommodation; and for connected purposes.

[26th February 2002]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—