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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/701",
  "legislation_title": "The Homelessness (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HOUSING, ENGLAND\nMade 10th March 2000\nLaid before Parliament 13th March 2000\nComing into force 3rd April 2000\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 185(2) and (3), 194(6), 198(4) and 215(2) of the Housing Act 1996, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 52; see section 215(1) for the definition of “prescribed”. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 194(6), 198(4) and 215(2) are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Housing Act 1996. Article 2 and that entry also provide that the functions of the Secretary of State under section 185 are exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales concurrently with the Secretary of State."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/701/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:11.019070+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."
}