{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-101.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Mandatory possession for non-payment of rent: reduction in arrears required.",
  "text": "In Part I of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 (grounds on which court must order possession) in Ground 8 (rent unpaid for certain periods)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) (rent payable weekly or fortnightly) for “thirteen weeks”’ there shall be substituted “ eight weeks ”’, and\n(b) in paragraph (b) (rent payable monthly) for “three months”’ there shall be substituted “ two months ”’.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 101 wholly in force at 28.2.1997 by S.I. 1997/225, art. 2 (subject to savings in the Sch. to that S.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/101",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}