The following notes are for general guidance only and do not provide a full and comprehensive breakdown of the provisions of Section 10(2) of the Law.

If you wish to obtain clarification of your position under Section 10(2) then you should contact the Housing Control section.

The following is an outline of the principal ways a person can be a "Qualified Resident" under the current Guernsey Housing Law:

1. lived in Guernsey at any time between 1 January 1938 and 30 June 1957, and was occupying a dwelling in Guernsey on 31 July 1968; or


2. On the 31 July, 1968, was the spouse or child of a person qualified under 1 above and had lived in Guernsey for a total of at least five years before 26 March 1975; or


3. was born in Guernsey before 1 July 1994 and who has lived in Guernsey continuously since birth; or


4. was born in Guernsey before 1 July 1994 and has lived in Guernsey for a total of at least ten years in a twenty year period and who is the child of parents at least one of whom was ordinarily resident in Guernsey at the time of the birth of that person; or


5. was born in Guernsey on or after 1 July 1994 and has lived in Guernsey for a total of at least ten years in a twenty year period and who is the child of parents at least one of whom is a qualified resident and was ordinarily resident in Guernsey at the time of the birth of that person; or


6. has lived in Guernsey for a total of at least ten years in a twenty year period and is the child of a person qualified under 4 or 5 above; or


7. has lived in Guernsey and cohabited, in the Island, as the married spouse of a qualified resident for at least ten consecutive years; or


8. has lived in Guernsey as an essential employment licence holder for at least fifteen consecutive years; or


9. is the child of a person who has qualified after fifteen years as an essential employment licence holder, but only if the child was first resident with his parent under the age of eighteen and has lived in Guernsey for a total of at least fifteen years in a twenty five year period; or


10. has lived in dwellings in Guernsey by virtue of a housing licence for at least twenty consecutive years; or


11. has lived in Guernsey for at least twenty years in total in a thirty-year period and who first occupied a dwelling in Guernsey in his parent's household as a Minor (i.e. below age 18).