{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Powers: general",
  "text": "(1) This Part contains various specific powers of the HCA.\n(2) The specific powers of the HCA (whether contained in this Part or elsewhere) are to be exercised for the purposes of its objects or for purposes incidental to those purposes.\n(3) Each power may be exercised separately or together with, or as part of, another power.\n(4) Each power does not limit the scope of another power.\n(5) Each power does not limit the scope of the powers conferred by section 3.\n(6) But—\n(a) subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to the HCA in its capacity as a local planning authority by virtue of sections 13 and 14 or in its exercise of other functions by virtue of those sections,\n(aa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and\n(b) the powers conferred by section 3 must not be used to override a restriction imposed on the exercise of a specific power.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(6)(aa) omitted (1.10.2018) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1040), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 3 (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 8.9.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/2358, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.12.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(a) (with arts. 6-13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force 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/4",
    "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."
}