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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2959",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Subject to the transitional provision in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to this Order, the following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st April 1997—\nsection 159,\nsections 160 to 163 to the extent that they are not already in force,\nsection 164,\nsection 165 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsection 166,\nsection 167 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nsection 168,\nsections 170 and 171,\nsection 173, and\nsection 227 in so far as it relates to Part VII of Schedule 19.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2959/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:32.261195+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."
}