{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Duties in relation to social housing",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies if the HCA acquires, constructs or converts any housing or other land for use as low cost rental accommodation.\n(2) The HCA must ensure that a registered provider of social housing is the landlord of the accommodation when it is made available for rent.\n(3) Subsection (4) applies if the HCA disposes of any housing or other land to a person on condition that the person provides low cost rental accommodation (whether in the same or different housing or other land).\n(4) The HCA must impose a further condition that a registered provider of social housing is the landlord of the accommodation when it is made available for rent.\n(5) Subsection (6) applies if the HCA provides infrastructure to a person on condition that the person provides low cost rental accommodation.\n(6) The HCA must impose a further condition ensuring that a registered provider of social housing is the landlord of the accommodation when it is made available for rent.\n(7) Subsection (8) applies if the HCA is proposing to give financial assistance on condition that the recipient provides low cost rental accommodation.\n(8) The HCA must impose a further condition ensuring that a registered provider of social housing is the landlord of the accommodation when it is made available for rent.\n(8A) Subsection (8B) applies if the HCA is proposing to give financial assistance on condition that the recipient provides low cost home ownership accommodation.\n(8B) The HCA must consult the Regulator of Social Housing about the proposals.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) For the purposes of this section, a person provides low cost rental accommodation ... if (and only if) the person acquires, constructs or converts any housing or other land for use as low cost rental accommodation ... or ensures such acquisition, construction or conversion by another.\n(11A) For the purposes of this section, a person provides low cost home ownership accommodation if (and only if) the person acquires, constructs or converts any housing or other land for use as low cost home ownership accommodation or ensures such acquisition, construction or conversion by another.\n(12) In this section—\n“low cost home ownership accommodation” has the meaning given by section 70, and\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“low cost rental accommodation” has the meaning given by section 69,",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(2) 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. 2 para. 26(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(4) 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. 2 para. 26(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(6) 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. 2 para. 26(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(8) 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. 2 para. 26(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 31(8A)(8B) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1040), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(a) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 31(9)(10) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 16 para. 4(2), Sch. 25 Pt. 26; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(11) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 16 para. 4(3)(a), Sch. 25 Pt. 26; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(11) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 16 para. 4(3)(b), Sch. 25 Pt. 26; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 31(11A) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1040), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(b) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(12) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1040), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(c) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(12) omitted (1.4.2010) by virtue of The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration of Local Authorities) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/844), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 26(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(12) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 16 para. 4(4), Sch. 25 Pt. 26; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 31-36 applied (with modifications) by 1999 c. 29, s. 333ZE(1)(2) (as inserted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss. 187(3), 240(2); S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(e) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 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/31",
    "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."
}