{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Suspension of prohibition orders",
  "text": "(1) A prohibition order may provide for the operation of the order to be suspended until a time, or the occurrence of an event, specified in the order.\n(2) The time so specified may, in particular, be the time when a person of a particular description begins, or ceases, to occupy any premises.\n(3) The event so specified may, in particular, be a notified breach of an undertaking accepted by the local housing authority for the purposes of this section from a person on whom a copy of the order is served.\n(4) In subsection (3) a “notified breach”, in relation to such an undertaking, means an act or omission by such a person—\n(a) which the local housing authority consider to be a breach of the undertaking, and\n(b) which is notified to that person in accordance with the terms of the undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 wholly in force at 16.6.2006; s. 23 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 270(4)(5); s. 23 in force for E. at 6.4.2006 by S. I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(a) (with Sch.); s. 23 in force for W. at 16.6.2006 by S. I. 2006/1535, art. 2(a) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/34/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:48.975968+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}