{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1961/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1961/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/65",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1961",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Power to substitute closing order for demolition order to enable a house to be used otherwise than for human habitation",
  "text": "(1) If an owner of a house in respect of which a demolition order has become operative or any other person who has an interest in the house submits proposals to the local authority for the use of the house for a purpose other than human habitation, the local authority may, if they think fit so to do, determine the demolition order and make a closing order as respects the house.\n(2) Where a local authority determine a demolition order and make a closing order under this section, they shall serve notice that the demolition order has been determined and a copy of the closing order on every person on whom they would be required by subsection (1) of section sixteen of the principal Act to serve a notice issued by them under that subsection.\n(3) In subsection (5) of section twenty-seven and in section twenty-eight of the principal Act (which relate respectively to the recovery of possession of premises subject to a closing order made under subsection (1) of section seventeen of that Act and to the substitution of a demolition order for a closing order so made) references to a closing order made under the said subsection (1) shall include references to a closing order made under this section.\n(4) This section shall be construed as one with Part II of the principal Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/65/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:09:37.324442+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."
}