JSP 464 - Ministry of Defence

ACCOMMODATION RELATED DEFINITIONS
As at 13 Jul 12 1D-1
ANNEX D TO
CHAPTER 1
1. Personal Status Categories (PStatCat). The personal status of Service personnel
is defined by Personal Status Category (PStatCat). A list of PStatCat definitions can be
found in JSP 752, Chapter 1 Section 4.
2. Service Family Accommodation (SFA). Accommodation provided for Service and
entitled civilian personnel with dependent families. It is normally provided by means of
Service Family Accommodation (SFA) or Substitute Service Family Accommodation
(SSFA or hirings).
3. Substitute Service Family Accommodation (SSFA). Where SFA is not available,
privately rented accommodation will be provided, allocated and managed by the MOD
Accommodation Agency contractor. The standards of accommodation will remain the
same as those to which Service personnel are currently entitled within these regulations.
4. Entitled Service personnel. Entitled personnel are guaranteed to be provided SFA
or SSFA at the duty unit specified on their assignment order. To be entitled to SFA
Service personnel within the UK and overseas must meet the criteria laid out at JSP 752
Chapter 1 Section 4.
5. Eligible Service personnel. Eligible personnel may apply to occupy temporarily
surplus SFA only where it is available. To be eligible to occupy surplus SFA personnel
within UK must meet the criteria laid out in JSP 464 Pt I Chapter 10 and, for those serving
outside UK, at JSP 464 Pt II Chapter 9.
6. Dependants. A dependant is defined as a spouse/civil partner or child of a Service
person or entitled civilian who depends on him or her for support.
7. Children. For the purposes of SFA allocation, a child is defined as ‘the natural child,
or the adopted child of the Service person or his or her spouse, civil partner or other
partner in respect of whom a Service Declaration has been made; or a child of the family 4
who is below the age of majority (18 years of age). Unborn children, who are expected to
be born within 6 months of occupation of SFA, are to be counted as members of the
family. Exceptions to the age limit above are:
a. Dependent children who are under age 25, unmarried and in receipt of full-time
education at school, 6 th Form College, College of Further Education or an Institute of
Higher Education (eg University), studying up to and including 1 st degree level only
and where the dependant child continues to reside with the parents in SFA, providing
there is no more than a break of one academic year between the secondary and
further education 5 .
b. Children of any age who are physically or mentally incapable of contributing to
their own support.’
8. Other Occupants. Other occupants include non – dependant adult children, aged
parents and full time nannies/au pairs for whom permission has been granted by DIO Ops
4 A term meaning any other child who is being brought up in the household of the husband/wife at his/her expense, or was so brought
up immediately before the spouse/civil partners were estranged, separated by legal order, divorced or before their marriage was
annulled or before the death of the wife/husband/partner. e.g a child for whom one is a legal guardian.’
5
The academic year is defined as the period between the last day of the summer term and the first day of the winter term in the
following year (for example Jul 03 – Sep 04).