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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-315",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-315.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/315",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "315",
  "heading": "Armed forces: local connection test",
  "text": "In section 199 of the Housing Act 1996 (local connection test for homelessness and housing allocation purposes: different treatment of armed forces) omit—\n(a) subsection (2),\n(b) in subsection (3), paragraph (a) and the “or” following it,\n(c) subsection (4), and\n(d) in subsection (5), the word “other”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 315 in force at 1.12.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/3068, art. 4(10) (with arts. 6-13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 315 in force at 30.3.2009 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2009/773, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/315",
    "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."
}