{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-48",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Duty to consider applying for rent repayment orders",
  "text": "If a local housing authority becomes aware that a person has been convicted of an offence to which this Chapter applies in relation to housing in its area, the authority must consider applying for a rent repayment order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 6.4.2017 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/281, reg. 4(b) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 6.4.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2018/393, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:11.976723+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."
}