{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-266",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-266.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/266",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "266",
  "heading": "Removal of officers",
  "text": "(1) The regulator may by order remove an officer of a private registered provider if a Case listed in this section applies to the officer.\n(2) Case 1 applies to a person who has been made bankrupt.\n(3) Case 2 applies to a person who has made an arrangement with creditors.\n(4) Case 3 applies to a person who is subject to a disqualification order or a disqualification undertaking under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (c. 46) or equivalent legislation in Northern Ireland.\n(5) Case 4 applies to a person who is subject to an order under section 429(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) (disabilities on revocation of county court administration order).\n(6) Case 5 applies to a person who is disqualified under section 178 of the Charities Act 2011 from being a charity trustee.\n(7) Case 6 applies to a person who is incapable of acting by reason of mental disorder.\n(8) Case 7 applies to a person who is impeding the proper management of the registered provider by reason of absence or failure to act.\n(9) Case 8 applies to a person who is obstructing the regulator, or failing to co-operate with the regulator, in the performance of the regulator’s functions under this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 266(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 17(a); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 266(2) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/481), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 266(6) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 134 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 266(9) inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), s. 46(3), Sch. 3 para. 17(b); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 266 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/266",
    "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."
}