{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisionsengland-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions)(England) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisionsengland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Subject to article 3 the following provisions of the Housing Act 2004 shall come into force on 4th July 2005—\n(a) sections 181, 230, and 231; and\n(b) section 229 and Schedule 13 insofar as they are not already in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 229 so far as it confers a power to make orders and Schedule 13 so far as it confers a power to make regulations are already in force by virtue of section 270(2)(b) of the Housing Act 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1729/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:57.436205+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."
}