{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-act-2002/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-act-2002/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/7",
  "legislation_title": "Homelessness Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-act-2002",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Application of Part 6 to existing tenants",
  "text": "For subsections (5) and (6) of section 159 of the 1996 Act (application of Part 6 of that Act to existing secure and introductory tenants, to existing tenants of registered social landlords and to certain other tenants) there is substituted—\n“(5) The provisions of this Part do not apply to an allocation of housing accommodation to a person who is already a secure or introductory tenant unless the allocation involves a transfer of housing accommodation for that person and is made on his application.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 wholly in force at 31.1.2003; s. 13 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 20(1); s. 13 in force for W. at 27.1.2003 by S.I. 2002/1736, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2; s. 13 in force for E. at 31.1.2003 by S.I. 2002/3114, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/7/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:43.015618+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."
}