2023 No. 79
Housing, Northern Ireland

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 22A(3) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 19811 and Article 7A(2) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 19882.

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 and come into operation on 15th May 2023.

(2)

These Regulations extend to Northern Ireland.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 15.5.2023, see reg. 1(1)

Amendment of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20062.

(1)

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) Regulations 2006 (Northern Ireland)3 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3(2) (persons from abroad who are ineligible for an allocation of housing accommodation), after sub-paragraph (l) insert—

“(m)

a person who was residing in Sudan before 15th April 2023 and who left Sudan in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated on 15th April 2023 in Khartoum and across Sudan.”.

(3)

In regulation 4(2) (persons from abroad who are ineligible for housing assistance), after sub-paragraph (l) insert—

“(m)

a person who was residing in Sudan before 15thApril 2023 and who left Sudan in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated on 15th April 2023 in Khartoum and across Sudan.”.

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

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 15.5.2023, see reg. 1(1)

Felicity Buchan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/397) to ensure that persons who were residing in Sudan before 15th April 2023, and who left Sudan in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated on 15th April 2023 in Khartoum and across Sudan, are exempt from the habitual residence test otherwise applicable in relation to eligibility for an allocation of housing accommodation and for housing assistance.

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