{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-232",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-232.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/232",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "232",
  "heading": "Commencement.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent—\nsection 110 (new leases: valuation principles),\nsection 120 (payment of housing benefit to third parties), and\nsections 223 to 226 and 228 to 233 (general provisions).\n(2) The following provisions of this Act come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which this Act is passed—\nsections 81 and 82 (restriction on termination of tenancy for failure to pay service charge),\nsection 85 (appointment of manager by the court),\nsection 94 (provision of general legal advice about residential tenancies),\nsection 95 (jurisdiction of county courts),\nsection 221 (exercise of compulsory purchase powers in relation to Crown land),\nparagraph 24 (powers of local housing authorities to acquire land for housing purposes), paragraph 26 (preserved right to buy) and paragraphs 27 to 29 of Schedule 18 (local authority assistance in connection with mortgages), and\nsections 222 and 227, and Schedule 19 (consequential repeals), in so far as they relate to those paragraphs.\n(3) The other provisions of this Act come into force on a day appointed by order of the Secretary of State, and different days may be appointed for different areas and different purposes.\n(4) An order under subsection (3) shall be made by statutory instrument and may contain such transitional provisions and savings as appear to the Secretary of State to be appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 232(3)(4) power of appointment exercised for specified provisions as follows:1.8.1996 appointed (30.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/2048, arts. 2-423.8.1996 and 1.10.1996 appointed (22.8.1996) by S.I. 1996/2212, arts. 1, 224.9.1996 and 1.10.1996 appointed (16.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2402, arts. 2-523.10.1996 appointed (15.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2658, art. 220.1.1997 and 1.4.1997 appointed (25.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2959, arts. 2, 34.2.1997 appointed (14.1.1997) by S.I. 1997/66, arts. 1, 228.2.1997 appointed (28.1.1997) by S.I. 1997/225, arts. 1, 23.3.1997 appointed (13.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/350, art. 2 and (26.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/596, art. 21.4.1997 and 1.4.1998 appointed (5.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/618, arts. 2, 31.9.1997 appointed (25.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1851, arts. 1, 211.8.1998 appointed (21.7.1998) by S.I. 1998/1768, art. 2.15.10.2001 appointed (12.9.2001) by S.I. 2001/3164, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/232",
    "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."
}