{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provisions-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSubject to the transitional provisions and savings in the Schedule, this Order brings into force—\nthe remaining provisions of Part I of the Housing Act 1996 (social rented sector),\nsection 106 (low rent test for leasehold enfranchisement: extension of rights),\nsection 118 (estate management schemes in connection with enfranchisement by virtue of section 106),\nPart IV of the Act (housing benefit and related matters) (other than section 120), and section 227 in so far as it relates to the repeals specified in article 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/618/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:15.249643+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."
}