{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-2-and-savings-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-2-and-savings-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2212",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 2 and Savings) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-2-and-savings-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) So much of the following provisions of the Act as confers on the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State the powers to make orders, regulations or rules shall come into force on 23 August 1996—\nsection 83(3),\nsection 86(4) and (5),\nsection 92 in so far as it relates to paragraph 7 of Part IV of Schedule 6,\nsection 96 in so far as it relates to the insertion by Schedule 7 of paragraphs 7(2)(a) and 9(2)(a) of Schedule 2A to the Housing Act 1988,\nsection 106 in so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Schedule 9, and\nsection 119.\n(2) The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on the commencement date subject to the savings in the Schedule to this Order—\nsection 84,\nsection 88,\nsections 89 to 91\nsection 92 (in so far as it will not already be in force),\nsection 93,\nsection 105,\nsections 107 to 109,\nsections 111 to 117, and\nsection 227 in so far as it relates to the repeals to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 in Part III of Schedule 19 and to the repeals in Part V of that Schedule (except the repeal to section 39(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}