{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-2ZA/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-2ZA/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2ZA/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Notice of intent",
  "text": "(1) The notice of intent must be given before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the first day on which the authority has sufficient evidence of the conduct to which the financial penalty relates.\n(2) But if the person is continuing to engage in the conduct on that day, and the conduct continues beyond the end of that day, the notice of intent may be given—\n(a) at any time when the conduct is continuing, or\n(b) within the period of 6 months beginning with the last day on which the conduct occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2ZA inserted (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), ss. 16, 145(1)(8) (with ss. 138, 146(1), 147(1)(2), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/2ZA/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:37.392139+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."
}