{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-224",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-224.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/224",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "224",
  "heading": "The Common Council of the City of London.",
  "text": "(1) The Common Council of the City of London may appoint a committee, consisting of so many persons as they think fit, for any purposes of this Act which in their opinion may be better regulated and managed by means of a committee.\n(2) A committee so appointed—\n(a) shall consist as to a majority of its members of members of the Common Council, and\n(b) shall not be authorised to borrow money or to make a rate,\nand shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions which may be imposed by the Common Council.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 224(3) omitted (26.12.2023) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 83(2), 255(2)(s) (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 224(4) omitted (26.12.2023) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 83(2), 255(2)(s) (with s. 247)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/224",
    "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."
}