{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-reduction-act-2017/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-reduction-act-2017/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/13",
  "legislation_title": "Homelessness Reduction Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/homelessness-reduction-act-2017",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duties to help to secure accommodation",
  "text": "In section 205 of the Housing Act 1996 (discharge of functions: introductory), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(3) For the purposes of this section, a local housing authority's duty under section 189B(2) or 195(2) is a function of the authority to secure that accommodation is available for the occupation of a person only if the authority decide to discharge the duty by securing that accommodation is so available.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 3.4.2018 by S.I. 2018/167, reg. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/13/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:36.455547+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."
}