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27ZF.—(1) This regulation applies where—
(a)the registration officer is permitted by regulation 27ZB(6) to proceed under this regulation,
(b)regulation 27ZD(1)(c) or 27ZE(1)(c) or (2)(b) applies, and
(c)the registration officer considers that additional evidence is necessary to be satisfied that the applicant has a previous connection to the address claimed as the qualifying address.
(2) The registration officer may require the applicant to provide an attestation which—
(a)confirms the basis on which the applicant met the qualifying address connection requirement,
(b)indicates the dates between which, to the best of the attestor’s knowledge, the applicant met the requirement, and
(c)meets the general attestation requirements in regulation 27ZH(1).
(3) The qualifying address connection requirement is—
(a)where the applicant claims that they had a service qualification, that the applicant would have been residing at the address claimed as the qualifying address but for the applicant’s service qualification;
(b)where the applicant claims that they were a merchant seaman, that the applicant—
(i)would have been residing at the address claimed as the qualifying address but for the applicant’s occupation as a merchant seaman, or
(ii)commonly stayed at the address claimed as the qualifying address, which was a hotel or club providing accommodation for merchant seamen, during the course of the applicant’s occupation as a merchant seaman;
(c)where the applicant claims that they were a patient in a mental hospital or detained, that the applicant would have been residing at the address claimed as the qualifying address if the applicant had not been a patient or detained;
(d)where the applicant claims that they were a homeless person, that the address claimed as the qualifying address was, or was nearest to, a place in the United Kingdom where the applicant commonly spent a substantial part of the applicant’s time (whether during the day or at night).
(4) An attestation provided in accordance with this regulation may be combined with an attestation provided in accordance with regulation 27ZD(2)(b) or regulation 27ZE(3)(b) where the attestor for each attestation is the same.
(5) In this regulation—
“merchant seaman” has the same meaning as in section 6 of the 1983 Act;
“service qualification” has the same meaning as in section 14(1) of the 1983 Act.]
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