{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-201",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-201.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/201",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "201",
  "heading": "Inspections",
  "text": "(1) The regulator may arrange for a person to inspect—\n(a) a registered provider's performance of its functions in relation to the provision of social housing, or\n(b) the financial or other affairs of a registered provider.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The regulator may direct a person carrying out an inspection to discontinue it.\n(5) An inspection may be general or specific.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Arrangements for a person other than a member of the regulator's staff to carry out an inspection may include provision about payments.\n(7A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 201(2) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 2; S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 201(2A) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 2; S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 201(3) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 17 para. 10(3), Sch. 25 Pt. 27; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 201(6) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 17 para. 10(4), Sch. 25 Pt. 27; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 201(7) substituted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 17 para. 10(5); S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 201(7A) omitted (1.4.2015) by Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 94; S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 201(8) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 17 para. 10(7), Sch. 25 Pt. 27; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 201 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/201",
    "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."
}