Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

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10(1)Section 20 (persons having priority on housing list and allocation of housing) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (1)(b) at the beginning insert “ subject to subsection (1A), ”.

(3)After subsection (1) insert—

(1A)Homeless persons and persons threatened with homelessness (within the meaning of Part 2) are to be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (1) if they would not be such persons without the local authority having had regard to a restricted person (also within the meaning of Part 2).

(4)In subsection (2) for “such housing” substitute “ housing falling within subsection (1) ”.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 15 para. 10 in force at 2.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/415, art. 3