Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 2527
Housing, england
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Regulations 2006
Made
14th September 2006
Laid before Parliament
18th September 2006
Coming into force
9th October 2006
Citation, commencement, interpretation and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 9th October 2006.
(2) In these Regulations, “the 1996 Act” means the Housing Act 1996.
(3) These Regulations apply to England only.
Amendment of the classes of person from abroad who are eligible for an allocation of accommodation and for housing assistance
2. —(1)The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) Regulations 2006( 3 ) are amended as follows.
(2) For regulation 3(d), substitute—
“ (d) Class D— a person who has humanitarian protection granted under the Immigration Rules. ” .
(3) For regulation 5(1)(d), substitute—
“ (d) Class D— a person who has humanitarian protection granted under the Immigration Rules; and ” .
Prescribed period for referral of case to another local housing authority
3. For the purposes of section 198(4)(b) of the 1996 Act (referral of case to another local housing authority), the prescribed period is the aggregate of—
(a) five years; and
(b) the period beginning on the date of the previous application and ending on the date on which the applicant was first placed in pursuance of that application in accommodation in the district of the authority to whom the application is now made.
Transitional provisions
4. The amendments made by these Regulations shall not have effect in relation to an applicant whose application for—
(a) an allocation of housing accommodation under Part 6 of the 1996 Act; or
(b) housing assistance under Part 7 of the 1996 Act,
was made before 9th October 2006.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Yvette Cooper
Minister of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
14th September 2006
See the definition of “prescribed” in section 215(1) of the Housing Act 1996.
1996, c.52 ; section 160A was added by section 14(2) of the Homelessness Act 2002 (c.7) . The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 160A(3), 172(4), 198(4) and 215(2) of the Act are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations) and section 17(1) of the Homelessness Act 2002. That article and Schedule also provide that the functions of the Secretary of State under section 185 of the Act are exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales concurrently with the Secretary of State.