{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/schedule-5/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/schedule-5/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 39 (power of development corporations to transfer undertakings) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) for “Secretary of State” substitute “ appropriate national authority ”.\n(3) In subsection (2) for “Secretary of State” substitute “ appropriate national authority ”.\n(4) In subsection (2A) for “in relation to Wales” substitute “ in the case of a development corporation established by the Welsh Ministers ”.\n(5) In subsection (3) for “Secretary of State” substitute “ appropriate national authority ”.\n(6) In subsection (4)—\n(a) at the beginning insert “In a case in which the appropriate national authority is the Secretary of State,”, and\n(b) for “Secretary of State”, where it first appears, substitute “ appropriate national authority ”.\n(7) In subsection (5)—\n(a) for “Secretary of State” substitute “ appropriate national authority ”, and\n(b) for “he” substitute “ the authority ”.\n(8) For subsection (5A) substitute—\n“(5A) No order shall be made under subsection (5) above—\n(a) by the Secretary of State unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the House of Commons;\n(b) by the Welsh Ministers unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7 in force at 1.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(v)(2) (with arts. 6-13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/schedule/5/paragraph/7",
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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."
}