{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Rent repayment orders: consequential amendments",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Act 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 73 (other consequences of operating unlicensed HMOs: rent repayment orders)—\n(a) in subsection (4), after “section 74” insert “ (in the case of an HMO in Wales) or in accordance with Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (in the case of an HMO in England) ”;\n(b) in subsection (5)(a), after “HMO” insert “ in Wales ”.\n(3) In section 96 (other consequences of operating unlicensed houses: rent repayment orders)—\n(a) in subsection (4), after “section 97” insert “ (in the case of a house in Wales) or in accordance with Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (in the case of a house in England) ”;\n(b) in subsection (5)(a), after “house” insert “ in Wales ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 in force at 6.4.2017 by S.I. 2017/281, reg. 4(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/50",
    "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."
}