
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2003.
2 
In these Regulations –
 “the Order” means the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and
 “the Common Travel Area” means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland collectively.
3 
The following is a class of persons who are ineligible for the purposes of Article 22A of the Order (allocation only to eligible persons) –
A person who is not habitually resident in the Common Travel Area other than –
(a) a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 or (EEC) No. 1251/70;
(b) a person with a right to reside in the United Kingdom pursuant to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000 and derived from Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC or No. 73/148/EEC;
(c) a person who left the territory of Montserrat after 1st November 1995 because of the effect on that territory of a volcanic eruption.
Paul Murphy
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
6th September 2003