{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/503",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Personal Files (Housing) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "RIGHTS OF THE SUBJECT\nMade 15th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 3(1), (2), (3) and (6) of the Access to Personal Files Act 1987, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such authorities and bodies representing authorities as they think appropriate, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 37; paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 was amended by paragraph 80 of Schedule 17 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/503/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}