{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-94",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016/section-94.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Planning Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-planning-act-2016",
  "path": "section/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Recovery of social housing assistance: successors in title",
  "text": "(1) Section 33 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (recovery of social housing assistance: interest and successors in title) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (6)(b), after “another person” insert “ (“the successor”) ”.\n(3) After subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) But subsection (7) does not apply if—\n(a) the successor is a person other than a registered provider of social housing, and\n(b) at any time since the social housing assistance was given—\n(i) a person has enforced a security over the social housing, or\n(ii) the social housing has been disposed of by a body while it is being wound up or is in administration (which, for this purpose, includes housing administration under Chapter 5 of Part 4 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016).””\n(4) In subsection (7) for “that other person” substitute “ the successor ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 94 in force at 3.2.2017 by S.I. 2017/75, reg. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/section/94",
    "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."
}