{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/schedule-7/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/schedule-7/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the Regulator of Social Housing proposes to give directions under paragraph 2 to an association whose rules restrict membership to persons entitled or prospectively entitled (whether as tenants or otherwise) to occupy a dwelling provided or managed by the association requiring the association to transfer its interest in any such land to the Regulator of Social Housing, or to any other person, the Secretary of State shall not consent to the giving of the directions unless he is satisfied that arrangements have been made which, if the directions are given, will secure that the members of the association receive fair treatment in connection with the transfer.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 4 renumbered as Sch. 7 para. 4(1) (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 53(4) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 4 substituted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 57(6)(a) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 4(2) repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 57(6)(b), Sch. 4 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/schedule/7/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:44.997710+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."
}