{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The district of a local housing authority",
  "text": "(1) References in this Act to the district of a local housing authority are to the area of the council concerned, that is, to the district, London borough, the City of London the Welsh county or county borough,or the Isles of Scilly, as the case may be.\n(2) References in this Act to “the local housing authority”, in relation to land, are to the local housing authority in whose district the land is situated.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19. s. 22(2), Sch. 8 para. 5(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 applied by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 92(1)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}