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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-and-savingsengland-order-2006/schedule/part-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1060",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions and Savings)(England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-and-savingsengland-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/part/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Fitness of a house in multiple occupation for the number of occupants",
  "text": "(1) During the period beginning on the first commencement date and ending on the date when regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 61(5) of the 2004 Act come into force, the repeal of sections 352, 352A or 353, shall not have effect in relation to a HMO which is a relevant converted block of flats.\n(2) During the period beginning on the first commencement date and ending on 5th April 2007—\n(a) the repeal of sections 352, 352A and 353 of, and Schedule 10 to, the 1985 Act shall not have effect in relation to any notice served under section 352(1) of that Act before the first commencement date; and\n(b) the repeal of sections 354, 355, 356, 395, 396 or 397 of the 1985 Act shall not have effect in relation to the commission of any offence committed before the first commencement date under—\n(i) subsection (2) of section or 355 of that Act; or\n(ii) subsection (2) of section 356 of that Act.\n(3) In relation to an appeal brought under subsection (2) of section 357 of the 1985 Act before the first commencement date a decision of a court to vary, or not to revoke, a direction under section 354 of that Act shall not have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1060/schedule/part/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:30:09.495918+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."
}