{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-612",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-612.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/612",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "612",
  "heading": "Exclusion of Rent Act protection.",
  "text": "Nothing in the Rent Acts , or the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) or Part I of the Housing Act 1988 prevents possession being obtained of a dwelling-house of which possession is required for the purpose of enabling a local housing authority to exercise their powers under any enactment relating to housing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 612 inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 11(27) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 2, 11, 12, 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(1), Sch. 17 Pt. I para. 63"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(e), Sch. 9 Pt. V para. 89"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/612",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}