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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order brings into force, on 28th February 1997, the following provisions of the Housing Act 1996 (subject to the savings in the Schedule to the Order)—

  • section 96, to the extent that it is not already in force;

  • sections 97 to 104 (assured tenancies);

  • sections 148 to 151 (repossession: assured tenancies); and

  • section 227, in so far as it relates to the repeals in Part IV of Schedule 19 (assured tenancies).

The amendments to sections 8 and 21(1) and (4) of and Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 made by the provisions commenced in the Order are subject to the savings in the Schedule to the Order.