{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-saving-and-transitory-provisions-order-2008/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3068",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional, Saving and Transitory Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-saving-and-transitory-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provisions: functions transferred from the URA or the CNT to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) Anything which, on the commencement date, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the transferor may, so far as it relates to any function transferred by a relevant enactment from the transferor to the transferee, be continued by or in relation to the transferee.\n(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the transferor for the purposes of or in connection with any function transferred by a relevant enactment from the transferor to the transferee shall, if in force or effective on the commencement date, have effect as if done by or in relation to the transferee so far as that is required for continuing its effect on or after the commencement date.\n(3) Any enactment, instrument or other document passed or made before the commencement date shall have effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of paragraph (1) or (2), as if any references (however expressed) to the transferor were references to the transferee.\n(4) The references in paragraphs (1) and (2) to things done include references to things omitted to be done.\n(5) In this article—\n“relevant enactment” means—\n(a) in the case of a transfer from the URA to the HCA, paragraph 4 of Schedule 8 to the Act;\n(b) in the case of a transfer from the CNT to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers, paragraphs 8 and 31 of Schedule 5 to the Act and paragraphs 4 to 12, 17, 18, 36, 43, 61, 80 and 82 of Schedule 8 to the Act;\n“the transferee”—\n(a) where the transferor is the URA, means the HCA;\n(b) where the transferor is the CNT, means the HCA or the Welsh Ministers;\n“the transferor”, except in the definition of “the transferee”, means the URA or the CNT,\nand the references in this paragraph to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers are to be read as including references to them acting in a particular capacity or in relation to particular matters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3068/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:19.457349+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."
}