{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-accommodation-and-homelessness-persons-subject-to-immigration-control-amendment-order-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-accommodation-and-homelessness-persons-subject-to-immigration-control-amendment-order-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Accommodation and Homelessness (Persons subject to Immigration Control) (Amendment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-accommodation-and-homelessness-persons-subject-to-immigration-control-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 26th January 1998\nLaid before Parliament 27th January 1998\nComing into force 4th February 1998\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 9(1) of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 49; section 9, in so far as it extends to England and Wales, was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 16 and Parts VII and VIII of Schedule 19 to the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52). See also section 231(4)(c) of the 1996 Act (extent)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/139/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:43.153622+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."
}