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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-1-and-saving-provisions-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/415",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-1-and-saving-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No.1 and Saving Provisions) Order 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008; and\n“the 1996 Act” means the Housing Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.52. Section 167 of the Act was amended by section 16 of the Homelessness Act 2002 (c.7) (“the 2002 Act”) and by section 223 of the Housing Act 2004 (c. 34). Section 185 was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 2002 Act. Section 193 was amended by sections 6, 7, and 8 of and paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the 2002 Act. Section 195 was amended by section 5 of and paragraph 14(b) to (d) to Schedule 1 to the 2002 Act. Section 202 was amended by section 8 of and paragraph 16 to the 2002 Act. There are other amendments to the 1996 Act that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/415/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:17:05.390145+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."
}