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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-act-2002-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-england-order-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2324",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (England) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-act-2002-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-england-order-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force, on 30th September 2002, the following provisions of the Homelessness Act 2002 in relation to England:\nsection 11;\nsection 18(1) in so far as it applies to paragraph 17(a) of Schedule 1.\nSection 11 inserts a new section 204A in the Housing Act 1996 conferring a new right on a homeless applicant to appeal to the county court against a decision of the local housing authority under section 204(4) of that Act (power to accommodate pending appeal to county court under section 204).\nParagraph 17(a) of Schedule 1 amends section 204 of that Act to enable the county court to extend the period of 21 days allowed for an appeal under that section against a local housing authority’s decision on a homelessness application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2324/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:49:32.013044+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."
}