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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-and-social-housing-allocation-wales-act-2026/section-40",
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  "legislation": "asc/2026/3",
  "legislation_title": "Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-and-social-housing-allocation-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52);\n“the 2014 Act” (“Deddf 2014”) means the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 7).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 2.4.2026, see s. 43(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/3/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:39.466249+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."
}