The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 611 (W. 92)

Housing, Wales

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

Made

7 June 2023

Coming into force

8 June 2023

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 160A(3) and (5) and 172(4) of the Housing Act 1996(1) and section 142(2)(a) and (b) of, and paragraph 1(2) and (4) of Schedule 2 to, the Housing (Wales) Act 2014(2).

In accordance with section 142(3)(b)(ii) of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru(3).

(1)

1996 c. 52. Section 160A was inserted by section 14(2) of the Homelessness Act 2002 (c. 7); subsections (3) and (5) were amended by section 146(2)(d) and (e) respectively of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20). The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 160A(3) and (5) and 172(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and the entry in relation to that Act in Schedule 1 to S.I. 1999/672, as read in accordance with section 17(1) of the Homelessness Act 2002. Those functions were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162(1) of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(2)

2014 anaw 7. See section 99 for the definition of “prescribed”.

(3)

The reference in section 142(3) to the National Assembly for Wales now has effect as a reference to Senedd Cymru, by virtue of section 150A(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006. See also section 40 of the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 4) for provision about the procedure that applies to this instrument.