{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-264",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-264.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/264",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "264",
  "heading": "Acting while disqualified: offence",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person to act as an officer of a registered provider in respect of which the person is disqualified under section 262.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine ... or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.\n(3) Proceedings for an offence may be brought only by or with the consent of—\n(a) the regulator, or\n(b) the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n(4) In relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022 the reference in subsection (2)(a) to the general limit in a magistrates’ court shall have effect as if it were a reference to 6 months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 264(2)(a) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 264(2)(a) omitted (20.9.2023) by virtue of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 5 para. 38; S.I. 2023/1001, reg. 2(y)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 264(4) substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 264(4) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 table"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 264 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/264",
    "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."
}