{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1737",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Council Housing (Staff Transfer and Protection) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Protection of housing accommodation",
  "text": "(1) Where, immediately before the appointed day, an officer of the Greater London Council occupies a dwelling (whether as tenant or otherwise) provided by that authority in connection with, or as a term of, his employment and—\n(a) he is transferred by or under article 6, but the dwelling is not transferred by a transfer of property order,\n(b) he is so transferred, but the dwelling is transferred to a different transferee authority by a transfer of property order, or\n(c) he is not so transferred, but the dwelling is transferred by a transfer of property order,\nnothing in this order shall prejudice that occupation.\n(2) In respect of occupation of a dwelling by an officer as described in paragraph (1)—\n(a) for the purposes of that occupation, the authority in whom the dwelling is vested shall permit the transferee authority by whom he is employed to deal with the dwelling as if it were vested in that authority, and\n(b) that transferee authority shall make any necessary payment to the authority in whom the dwelling is vested to take account of his occupation of the dwelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1737/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:07:43.933762+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}