The Housing Accommodation and Homelessness (Persons subject to Immigration Control) Order 1996
Under section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act, the Secretary of State has power to specify classes of persons subject to immigration control for whom local housing authorities may provide housing accommodation (subsection (1)) or assistance under the homelessness legislation (subsection (2)). This Order specifies the following classes for the purposes of section 9(1) (article 3)—Class A—a person recorded as a refugee;Class B—a person who has been granted exceptional leave to enter or remain in the UK;Class C—a person whose leave to enter or remain is not subject to any restriction;Class D—an overseas student, in difficult to let accommodation let by a local housing authority to an education institution.