{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-115",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-115.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/115",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "115",
  "heading": "Profit-making and non-profit organisations",
  "text": "(1) Each entry in the register shall designate the body registered as either—\n(a) a non-profit organisation, or\n(b) a profit-making organisation.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A body is a non-profit organisation if—\n(a) it is a registered or non-registrable charity and satisfies Conditions 1 and 2, or\n(b) otherwise, it satisfies Conditions 1 to 3.\n(4) Condition 1 is that the body—\n(a) does not trade for profit, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Condition 2 is that a purpose of the body is the provision or management of housing.\n(6) Condition 3 is that any other purposes of the body are connected with or incidental to the provision of housing.\n(6A) The fact that a body is prohibited by its constitution from trading for profit does not, of itself, mean that it is a body which does not trade for profit for the purposes of subsection (4)(a).\n(7) The Secretary of State may make regulations providing that a specified purpose is to be, or not to be, treated as connected with or incidental to the provision of housing.\n(8) A body which is not a non-profit organisation under subsection ... (3) is a profit-making organisation.\n(9) If the regulator thinks that what was a profit-making organisation has become a non-profit organisation or vice versa, the regulator must change the registered designation accordingly and notify the body it has done so.\n(10) Subsection (1) does not apply to the entry of a local authority in the register (and, accordingly, references to “profit-making” and “non-profit” in connection with a registered provider do not refer to a local authority).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 115(2) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(a), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 115(3) substituted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(b), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 115(4)(a) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(c)(i), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 115(4)(b) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(c)(ii), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 115(6A) inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(d), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 115(8) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 8(e), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 115(9) inserted (6.4.2017) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), s. 216(3), Sch. 4 para. 23; S.I. 2017/75, reg. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 115(9) inserted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 115(10) inserted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration of Local Authorities) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/844), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 115 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/115",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}