{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments: Part I.",
  "text": "(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 have effect with the minor amendments specified there.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may by order make such amendments or repeals of any enactment as appear to them necessary or expedient in consequence of the provisions of this Part.\n(3) Any such order shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(2) 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.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 55(2) substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 62(d), 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(3) substituted (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 63, 325(1); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 wholly in force 1.4.1997; s. 55 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 232(3); s. 55(1) in force for certain purposes and s. 55(2)(3) wholly in force at 1.8.1996 by S.I. 1996/2048, artS. 2, 4; s. 55(1) in force for certain purposes at 1.10.1996 by S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Sch. para. 1) and in force at 1.4.1997 to the extent it is not already in force by S.I. 1997/618, art. 2 (subject to the limitation in (2) of that art.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/55",
    "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."
}