{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Relevant Authority may exercise its powers under paragraphs 20 to 26 in relation to a registered charity only if the charity has received public assistance...\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In relation to a registered charity paragraphs 20 to 26 have effect with the following adaptations—\n(a) references to its affairs are confined to its housing activities and such other activities (if any) as are incidental to or connected with its housing activities;\n(b) references to its accounts do not include revenue accounts which do not relate to its housing activities, except so far as such accounts are necessary for the auditing of revenue accounts which do so relate or of the balance sheet;\n(c) a person is a qualified auditor for the purpose of paragraph 22 (extraordinary audit) only if he is an auditor qualified for the purposes of paragraph 18 (accounting and audit requirements for charities).\n(4) The Relevant Authority shall notify the Charity Commission upon the exercise in relation to a registered charity of its powers under—\n(a) paragraph 20(1) (inquiry into affairs of registered social landlord),\n(b) paragraph 23(2)(a) (interim suspension of person ...), or\n(c) paragraph 24(2)(a) or (b) (removal of person ... or suspension with a view to removal).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Pt. I substituted (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 82(1)(2) (with ss. 139(2), 141(1), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(1) inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), s. 90(2), Sch. para. 20(a)(i); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(1) omitted (18.10.2011) by virtue of Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), s. 90(2), Sch. para. 20(a)(ii); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 28(2) omitted (18.10.2011) by virtue of Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), s. 90(2), Sch. para. 20(b); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(4) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 192(5); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(4)(b) omitted (15.8.2018) by virtue of Regulation of Registered Social Landlords (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 4), s. 19(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(a); S.I. 2018/777, art. 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 28(4)(c) omitted (15.8.2018) by virtue of Regulation of Registered Social Landlords (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 4), s. 19(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(b); S.I. 2018/777, art. 3(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/34",
      "affecting_title": "Housing Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/34",
      "affecting_title": "Housing Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/schedule/1/paragraph/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+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."
}