The Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2521

IMMIGRATION

HOUSING, ENGLAND

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

HOUSING, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Persons Subject to Immigration Control (Housing Authority Accommodation and Homelessness) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

13th September 2006

Laid before Parliament

18th September 2006

Coming into force

9th October 2006

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 118, 119 and 166(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(1), makes the following Order:

(1)

1999 c.33. Section 118(1)(b) was amended by section 43(3) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. The Secretary of State can exercise the power under section 118 in relation to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland but not Wales: see article 2 of and the entry for section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 (c.49) in Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). See also section 17 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) (sections 118 and 119 re-enact, with modifications, section 9 of the 1996 Act). Section 9 of the 1996 Act, in so far as it extended to England and Wales, was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 16, and Parts VII and VIII of Schedule 19, to the Housing Act 1996 (c.52).