Section 119: Homelessness: Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 · 1999 c. 33View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VI: Support for Asylum-Seekers

A person subject to immigration control—

is not eligible for accommodation or assistance under the homelessness provisions, and
is to be disregarded in determining for the purposes of those provisions, whether a person falling within subsection (1A)—
is homeless or is threatened with homelessness, or
has a priority need for accommodation,

unless he is of a class specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.

A person falls within this subsection if the person—

falls within a class specified in an order under subsection (1); but
is not a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was—
a national of an EEA State or Switzerland, and
within a class specified in an order under subsection (1) which had effect at that time.

An order under subsection (1) may not be made so as to include in a specified class any person to whom section 115 applies.

"The homelessness provisions" means—

in relation to Scotland, Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; and
in relation to Northern Ireland, Part II of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988.

"Person subject to immigration control" has the same meaning as in section 118.

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