The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2022/601 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 626

Immigration

Housing, England

Housing, Scotland

Housing, Northern Ireland

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022

Made

8th June 2022

Laid before Parliament

9th June 2022

Coming into force

10th June 2022

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 160ZA(2), 172(4), 185(2) and 215(2) of the Housing Act 1996(1) and sections 118(1)(a), 119(1) and 166(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(2).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 10 June 2022.

(2) The amendment made by these Regulations has the same extent as the provision amended.

Amendment of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

2.  In regulation 1(1) of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022(3) for “22nd” substitute “10”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Eddie Hughes

Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

8th June 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) and Person Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/601). Their purpose is to correct the coming into force date of those Regulations, so that they come into force on 10 June 2022.

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument because the impact on business is not likely to be significant.

(1)

1996 c. 52. Section 160ZA was inserted by section 146(1) of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) and amended by S.I. 2013/630. Section 185 was amended by paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to the Homelessness Act 2002 (c. 7), paragraph 4 of Schedule 15 to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17) and S.I. 2013/630, 2009/415 and 2020/1309. Section 215(1) gives the meaning of “prescribed” in Part 7.

(2)

1999 c. 33. Section 118(1)(b) was amended by section 43(3) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13) and paragraph 2(e) and 20 of Schedule 11 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 33). Section 119 was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 15 to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17) and S.I. 2020/1309. There are no relevant amendments to section 166.

(3)

S.I. 2022/601