{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2152",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1988 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Housing Act 1988 shall come into force on 15th January 1989 —\nsection 49,\nsection 57,\nsection 59(1),\nsection 59(2) and (3) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 8(2), 25 and 26 (except paragraphs (b) and (c)) of Schedule 6 and, for the purposes only of section 59(1) of the Act and section 36A of the Housing Associations Act 1985, paragraph 1 of that Schedule,\nsection 94,\nsection 106,\nsections 111 to 114,\nsection 119, subject to the transitional provisions in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order,\nsection 140(1) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 16, 17(2), 18 to 37, 40, 42 to 65, 67 to 76 and 80 to 84 of Schedule 17, subject to the transitional provision for paragraph 21 in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order,\nsection 140(2) in so far as it relates to the repeals in the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951, the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976, the Rent Act 1977, the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, the Housing Act 1980, the Local Government Act 1985, the Housing Act 1985 and to the repeals specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, subject, as the case may be, to the transitional provisions in that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 69; section 36A was inserted by section 49 of the Housing Act 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1951 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1976 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1977 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1977 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1980 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1985 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2152/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:53:11.411674+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."
}