{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Recovery of possession of premises in order to comply with order",
  "text": "Nothing in—\n(a) the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42) or the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 (c. 80), ...\n(b) Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), or\n(c) Part 9 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1),\nprevents possession being obtained by the owner of any specified premises in relation to which a prohibition order is operative if possession of the premises is necessary for the purpose of complying with the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 33(a) omitted (1.12.2022) by virtue of The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(2)(a) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 9, 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 33(b) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(2)(b) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 9, 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 33(c) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 28(2)(c) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 9, 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33 wholly in force at 16.6.2006; s. 33 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 270(4)(5); s. 33 in force for E. at 6.4.2006 by S. I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(a) (with Sch.); s. 33 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/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:07:46.164527+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."
  }
}