{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Local housing authorities.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “local housing authority”—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, has the meaning given by section 1 of the Housing Act 1985, and\n(b) in relation to Scotland, means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.\n(2) References in this Act to the district of a local housing authority—\n(a) in England and Wales shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Housing Act 1985, and\n(b) in Scotland are to the area of a council mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(1)(b) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 143(3)(a); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(2)(b) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 143(3)(b); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/104",
    "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."
}