{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Initial notice to be given to the Welsh Ministers.",
  "text": "(1) Notice must be given to the Welsh Ministers before any of the steps mentioned below is taken in relation to a registered social landlord.\nThe person by whom the notice must be given is indicated in the second column.\n(2) Where the registered social landlord is a registered society, the steps and the person by whom notice must be given are—\nAny step to enforce any security over land held by the landlord.\nThe person proposing to take the step.\nPresenting a petition for the winding up of the landlord.\nThe petitioner.\nPassing a resolution for the winding up of the landlord.\nThe landlord.\n(3) Where the registered social landlord is a company (including a registered charity), the steps and the person by whom notice must be given are—\nAny step to enforce any security over land held by the landlord.\nThe person proposing to take the step.\nApplying for an administration order.\nThe applicant.\nPresenting a petition for the winding up of the landlord.\nThe petitioner.\nPassing a resolution for the winding up of the landlord.\nThe landlord.\n(4) Where the registered social landlord is a registered charity (other than a company ), the steps and the person by whom notice must be given are—\nAny step to enforce any security over land held by the landlord.\nThe person proposing to take the step.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Any step purportedly taken without the requisite notice being given under this section is ineffective.\n(7) Subsections (8) and (9) apply in relation to the reference in subsection (3) to applying for an administration order.\n(8) In a case where an administrator is appointed under paragraph 14 or 22 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (appointment by floating charge holder, company or directors)—\n(a) the reference includes a reference to appointing an administrator under that paragraph, and\n(b) in respect of an appointment under either of those paragraphs the reference to the applicant shall be taken as a reference to the person making the appointment.\n(9) In a case where a copy of a notice of intention to appoint an administrator under either of those paragraphs is filed with the court—\n(a) the reference shall be taken to include a reference to the filing of the copy of the notice, and\n(b) in respect of the filing of a copy of a notice of intention to appoint under either of those paragraphs the reference to the applicant shall be taken as a reference to the person giving the notice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Pt. I substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 61(7), 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 56 (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(3)(4) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 161(2)(b) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 40(5) omitted (15.8.2018) by virtue of The Regulation of Registered Social Landlords (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/870), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 40(7)-(9) added (15.9.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 17 para. 51 (with s. 249(1)-(3)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/40",
    "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."
}