The Housing Accommodation and Homelessness (Persons subject to Immigration Control) Order 1996

Classes specified under section 9(2)

4.  The classes of persons specified for the purposes of section 9(2) of the Act are those specified in classes A to C of article 3 and—

• Class E—a person who has made a claim for asylum which is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made either—

  (i)

  on his arrival (other than on his re-entry) in the United Kingdom from a country outside the Common Travel Area; or

  (ii)

  within 3 months from the day on which the Secretary of State makes a declaration to the effect that the country of which he is a national is subject to such a fundamental change in circumstances that he would not normally order the return of a person to that country,

  and which in either case, has not been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been determined or abandoned;

• Class F—a person (other than a person falling within Class E) who on or before 4th February 1996 has made a claim for asylum and who was on that date entitled to benefit under the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1) in a case where—

  (i)

  his claim has not been recorded by the Secretary of State as having been determined or abandoned; or

  (ii)

  there was on that date an appeal pending in respect of that claim or such an appeal is made within the time limits specified in rules of procedure made under section 22 of the 1971 Act,

  and, in either case, no determination or abandoning of the appeal in question has been recorded by the Secretary of State since that date.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971: relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/470 and S.I. 1994/1807.