1. These Regulations may be cited as the Homelessness Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2003.
2. In these Regulations –
“the Common Travel Area” means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland collectively;
“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning as in Article 3(4) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1);
“income support” means income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2);
“the Order” means the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988; and
“pension credit” means the guarantee credit element of state pension credit under section 2 of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(3).
3. For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) of Article 7A of the Order, the following is a description of persons who are to be treated as persons from abroad who are ineligible for assistance under Part II (housing the homeless) of the Order –
A person who is not habitually resident in the Common Travel Area other than –
(a)a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68(4) or (EEC) No. 1251/70(5);
(b)a person with a right to reside in the United Kingdom pursuant to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000(6) and derived from Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC(7) or No. 73/148/EEC(8);
(c)a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption;
(d)a person who is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or in receipt of income support or pension credit.
Paul Murphy
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
6th September 2003