{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-218",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-218.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/218",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "218",
  "heading": "Exercise of enforcement powers",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the regulator is deciding—\n(a) whether to exercise a power under this Chapter,\n(b) which power under this Chapter to exercise, or\n(c) how to exercise a power under this Chapter.\n(2) The regulator shall consider—\n(a) the desirability of registered providers being free to choose how to provide services and conduct business;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) the speed with which the failure or other problem needs to be addressed;\n(e) whether the failure or other problem is serious or trivial.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 218(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 26(a); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(z) (with reg. 5(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 218(2)(b)(c) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 17 para. 17(3), Sch. 25 Pt. 27; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 218(2)(e) inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 26(b); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(z) (with reg. 5(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 218(3) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 26(c); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(z) (with reg. 5(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 218(4) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 26(c); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(z) (with reg. 5(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 218 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/218",
    "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."
}