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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-1996/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Coming into force",
  "text": "So much of the following provisions of the 1996 Act as confer on the Corporation or the Secretary of State a power to consult, to make determinations, directions, orders or regulations or prepare schemes shall come into force on 1st October 1996—\nsection 18(2) and (7),\nsection 20(3),\nsection 21(3),\nsection 25,\nsection 27,\nsection 65,\nsection 66,\nsection 72,\nsection 75,\nsection 147,\nsection 161(2) and (3),\nsection 162(4).\nsection 163(7),\nsection 185(2) and (3),\nsection 194(6),\nsection 198(4) to (7), and\nsection 207(4) to (6).",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}