{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-50B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-50B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/50B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50B",
  "heading": "Exercise of enforcement powers",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Welsh Ministers are deciding—\n(a) whether to exercise an enforcement power,\n(b) which enforcement power to exercise, or\n(c) how to exercise an enforcement power.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must consider—\n(a) the desirability of registered social landlords being free to choose how to provide services and conduct business;\n(b) whether the failure or other problem concerned is serious or trivial;\n(c) whether the failure or other problem is a recurrent or isolated incident;\n(d) the speed with which the failure or other problem needs to be addressed.\n(3) In subsection (1), an “enforcement power” means a power exercisable under any of the following provisions—\nthis Chapter,\nparagraphs 4, 6 to 8, 14 to 15B, 15D, 15F and 15H of Part 2 of Schedule 1,\nparagraphs 20 to 27 of Part 4 of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50B inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), ss. 51, 90(2); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/50B",
    "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."
}