Housing authority accommodation—England, Scotland and Northern Ireland U.K.

3.  The following are classes of persons specified for the purposes of section 118(1) of the 1999 Act (housing authority accommodation) in respect of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland–

(a) Class A—a person recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Refugee Convention;

(b) Class B—a person–

[F1 (i) who has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom granted outside the provisions of the immigration rules; and]

(ii) whose leave is not subject to a condition requiring him to maintain and accommodate himself, and any person who is dependent on him, without recourse to public funds;

[F2 (bb) Class BA—a person who has humanitarian protection granted under the immigration rules;]

(c) Class C—a person who has current leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom which is not subject to any limitation or condition and who is habitually resident in the Common Travel Area other than a person–

(i) who has been given leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom upon an undertaking given by another person (his “sponsor”) in writing in pursuance of the immigration rules to be responsible for his maintenance and accommodation;

(ii) who has been resident in the United Kingdom for less than five years beginning on the date of entry or the date on which the undertaking was given in respect of him, whichever date is the later; and

(iii) whose sponsor or, where there is more than one sponsor, at least one of whose sponsors, is still alive;

(d) Class D—a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption;

F3 (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(f) Class F—a person who is attending a full-time course at a specified education institution in a case where the housing accommodation which is or may be provided to him–

(i) is let by a housing authority to that specified education institution for the purposes of enabling that institution to provide accommodation for students attending a full-time course at that institution; and

(ii) would otherwise be difficult for that housing authority to let on terms which, in the opinion of the housing authority, are satisfactory.

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 3(b)(i) substituted (9.10.2006) by The Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2521), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)

F2 Art. 3(bb) inserted (9.10.2006) by The Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2521), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)

F3 Art. 3(e) omitted (7.8.2008) by virtue of The Persons subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1768), arts. 1, 2(3) (with art. 3(1))

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 3 in force at 3.4.2000, see art. 1(1)