{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/281",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 6th April 2017",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 6th April 2017—\n(a) sections 40 to 46 (rent repayment orders) for the purpose only of conferring power on the First-tier Tribunal to make a rent repayment order where a landlord has committed an offence mentioned in rows 1 to 6 of the table in section 40(3);\n(b) section 48 (duty to consider applying for rent repayment orders) for the purpose only of requiring a local housing authority to consider applying for a rent repayment order where a landlord has committed an offence mentioned in rows 1 to 6 of the table in section 40(3);\n(c) sections 47(1) and (2) and 49 to 52 (further provisions relating to rent repayment orders);\n(d) section 53 (appeals from the first-tier tribunal);\n(e) sections 54 to 56 (interpretation of Part 2 of the Act);\n(f) section 126 and Schedule 9 (financial penalty as alternative to prosecution under the Housing Act 2004) in so far as not already in force;\n(g) sections 128 and 129 (housing information in England);\n(h) section 131 (limitation of administration charges: costs of proceedings);\n(i) section 160 (development consent for projects that involve housing);\n(j) section 183 and paragraphs 1 to 7 of Schedule 15 (notice of general vesting declaration procedure) in so far as not already in force;\n(k) section 196(3) (interest on advance payments of compensation paid late) for the purpose only of making regulations under section 52B(4) of the Land Compensation Act 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 26. Section 52B was inserted by section 196(3) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/281/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:59.323019+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."
}