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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-1-wales-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2009/773",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-1-wales-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Section 315 (armed forces: local connection test) comes into force on the commencement date in relation to applications—\n(i) for an allocation of housing accommodation, to which section 166 of the Housing Act 1996 applies; or\n(ii) to which Part VII (homelessness), as applied by section 183(1) (application for assistance) of that Act, applies,\nmade on or after the commencement date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 52."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}