Housing authority accommodation—EnglandI14

1

The following are classes of persons specified for the purposes of section 118(1) of the 1999 Act in respect of England–

a

Class G—a person F1whose needs for care and support a local authority considers should be met under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 by the provision of accommodation;

b

Class H—a person who is either a child in need or a member of the family of a child in need;

c

Class I—a person—

i

who is owed a duty under section 63(1) (interim duty to accommodate in case of apparent priority need), 65(2) or (3) (duties to persons found to be homeless) or 68(1) or (2) (duties to persons whose applications are referred) of the 1985 Act21;

ii

who is owed a duty under section 188(1) (interim duty to accommodate in case of apparent priority need), 190(2) (duties to persons becoming homeless intentionally), 193(2) (duty to persons with priority need who are not homeless intentionally), 195(2) (duties in case of threatened homelessness) or 200(1), (3) or (4) (duties to applicant whose case is considered for referral or referred) of the Housing Act 199622; or

iii

in respect of whom a local housing authority are exercising their power under section 194(1) (power exercisable after minimum period of duty under section 193) of the Housing Act 1996;

d

Class J—an asylum-seeker to whom, or a dependant of an asylum-seeker to whom, a local authority is required to provide support in accordance with regulations made under Schedule 9 to the 1999 Act (asylum support: interim provisions);

e

Class K—a person who is attending a designated course, which is a full-time course, at an educational establishment in a case where the housing accommodation which is or may be provided to him by a local housing authority–

i

is not and will not be let to him as a secure tenancy by virtue of paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the 1985 Act23 (student lettings which are not secure tenancies); and

ii

would otherwise be difficult for that local housing authority to let on terms which, in the opinion of the local housing authority, are satisfactory;

f

Class L—a person who has a secure tenancy within the meaning of section 79 of the 1985 Act (secure tenancies).

2

“Dependant”, in relation to an asylum-seeker within paragraph (1)(d) (Class J), means a person in the United Kingdom who–

a

is his spouse;

b

is a child of his, or of his spouse, who is under 18 and dependent on him; or

c

falls within such additional category as may be prescribed under section 94(1) of the 1999 Act (interpretation of Part VI—support for asylum-seekers), for the purposes of regulations made under Schedule 9 to the 1999 Act (asylum support: interim provisions), in relation to an asylum-seeker.