{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-237",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-237.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/237",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "237",
  "heading": "Grounds for award",
  "text": "(1) The regulator may require a private registered provider to pay compensation if the regulator is satisfied that—\n(a) any of the following cases applies, and\n(b) the award of compensation is appropriate (whether or not as part of a response including other action).\n(2) Case 1 is where the registered provider has failed to meet a standard under section 193, 194 or 194C.\n(3) Case 2 is where the registered provider has given an undertaking under section 125 and failed to comply with it.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Case 4 is where the registered provider has failed to comply with a performance improvement plan notice.\n(6) Case 5 is where the registered provider has failed to comply with the duty in section 218B(4) (duty to provide copy of performance improvement plan).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 237(1) substituted (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. 61"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 237(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/399), reg. 1(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(7); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 237(2) substituted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 22(5), 46(3); S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 237(4) omitted (20.9.2023) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 29; S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(y)(viii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 237(5)(6) inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 31(5), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 237 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/237",
    "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."
}