PART 2Provisions affecting entitlement to housing benefit
Persons from abroad10
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A person from abroad who is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling shall be treated as if he were not so liable but this paragraph shall not have effect in respect of a person to whom and for a period to which regulation 10A (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) and Schedule A1 F1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees) apply.
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F4In paragraph (1), “person from abroad” means, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.
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F4No person shall be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless he has a right to reside in (as the case may be) the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland other than a right to reside which falls within paragraph (4).
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F4A right to reside falls within this paragraph if it is one which exists by virtue of, or in accordance with, one or more of the following—
a
C1 regulation 13 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006;
b
regulation 14 of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the person is—
i
a jobseeker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations, or
ii
a family member (within the meaning of regulation 7 of those Regulations) of such a jobseeker;
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regulation 15A(1) of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the claimant satisfies the criteria in regulation 15A(4A) of those Regulations;
c
Article 6 of Council Directive No. 2004/38/ EC; F11...
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e
Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the right to reside arises because a British citizen would otherwise be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of their rights as a European Union citizen).
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A person is not a person from abroad if he is—
a
a worker for the purposes of Council Directive No. 2004/38/ EC ;
b
a self-employed person for the purposes of that Directive;
c
a person who retains a status referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) pursuant to Article 7(3) of that Directive;
d
a person who is a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) within the meaning of Article 2 of that Directive;
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a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 17 of that Directive;
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a person who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 pursuant to—
i
regulation 6 of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2006 (right of residence of a Bulgarian or Romanian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”), or
ii
regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”);
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a refugee;
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F6a person who has exceptional leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom granted outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;
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a person who has humanitarian protection granted under those rules;
i
a person who is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and who is in the United Kingdom as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to the United Kingdom;
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a person in Great Britain who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption; F7...
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a person who—
i
arrived in Great Britain on or after 28th February 2009 but before 18th March 2011;
ii
immediately before arriving there had been resident in Zimbabwe; and
iii
before leaving Zimbabwe, had accepted an offer, made by Her Majesty’s Government, to assist that person to move to and settle in the United Kingdom; or
k
on state pension credit.
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Paragraph (1) of Part 1 of the Schedule to, and regulation 2 as it applies to that paragraph of, the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 F2 shall not apply to a person who has been temporarily without funds for any period, or the aggregate of any periods, exceeding 42 days during any one period of limited leave (including any such period as extended).
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In this regulation—