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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2402",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Coming into force",
  "text": "Subject to the transitional provisions and savings in the Schedule to this Order, the following provisions of the 1996 Act shall come into force on 1st October 1996—\nsection 1,\nsection 2 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsection 3 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsection 4,\nsection 6,\nsection 7 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsection 8,\nsection 9 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsections 10 to 15 inclusive,\nsections 22 and 23,\nsections 30 to 34 inclusive,\nsection 36(7),\nsections 37 to 50 inclusive,\nsection 55(1) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 1(1) to (4), 2 to 5 inclusive, 7 (to the extent it is not already in force), 8, 10 and 11 of Schedule 3,\nsection 76,\nsection 77,\nsection 80(3),\nsection 129(3) and (4),\nsection 135,\nsection 138(4) to (6),\nsection 139,\nsection 140,\nsection 141(2) and (3),\nsection 142,\nsection 143,\nsection 160(4) and (5),\nsection 165(1), (2) and (5),\nsection 167(3) to (5),\nsection 169,\nsection 172,\nsection 174,\nsection 177(3),\nsection 182,\nsection 183(2),\nsection 189(2) to (4),\nsection 199(5),\nsection 203(1), (2) and (7),\nsection 210(2),\nsection 215,\nsection 217,\nsection 218,\nsection 222 in so far as it relates to paragraphs of Schedule 18 not already in force, and section 227 in so far as it relates to—\n(a) Part I of Schedule 19,\n(b) Part IX of that Schedule except for the repeal in section 79(2)(a) of the 1988 Act, and\n(c) Parts X to XIII of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2402/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:17.325077+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."
}