{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-239",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-239.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/239",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "239",
  "heading": "Housing ombudsman compensation",
  "text": "(1) The regulator may not award compensation to a person in respect of a matter if a housing ombudsman has awarded compensation to the person in respect of the matter.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 239(1) substituted (20.9.2023) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 30; S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(y)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 239(2) repealed (1.4.2013 for E.) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss. 180(2), 240(2), Sch. 25 Pt. 28 (with s. 180(5)); S.I. 2013/722, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 239 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/239",
    "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."
}