49The Parliament adds that the fact that a person has his actual residence in one place does not, of course, prevent him from having a second residence elsewhere, but a fictitious home cannot give rise to the grant of a resettlement allowance. Thus in Gutmann v Commission Advocate General Mancini found that an alleged resettlement in Paris was wholly fictitious notwithstanding the production of a certificate of permanent residence issued by the authorities of that city (see Opinion in Case 92/82 [1983] ECR 3127, 3136). Similarly, the Court of Justice has acknowledged that ‘an official residence permit has a specific function only in connection with national provisions on registration and it does not of itself prevent the permit holder from in fact having his actual residence elsewhere’ (Case 284/87 Schäflein v Commission [1988] ECR 4475).
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