{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "General provisions as to orders.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions apply to any power of the Welsh Ministers under section 2, 7J, 17, 27A, 39, 50J, 51 or 55 or Schedule 2 to make an order.\n(2) An order may make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case.\nThis includes power to make different provision for different bodies or descriptions of body, different provision for different housing activities and different provision for different areas.\n(3) An order may contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions and savings as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 52(1)(3) substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 62(a), 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 52(1) substituted (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 91 (with ss. 139(2), 141(1), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 52(1) inserted (15.8.2018) by Regulation of Registered Social Landlords (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 4), s. 19(2), Sch. 2 para. 12; S.I. 2018/777, art. 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 52(1) inserted (6.4.2006 for E.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), s. 270(4)(5)(f), Sch. 15 para. 41; S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 52(1) inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), s. 90(2), Sch. para. 11; S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 52(1)(3) substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 62(e), 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/52",
    "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."
}