{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Advisory service.",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may provide an advisory service for the purpose of giving advice on legal, architectural and other technical matters to registered social landlords or unregistered housing associations and to persons who are forming a housing association or are interested in the possibility of doing so.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may make charges for the service.\n(3) The powers conferred on the Welsh Ministers by subsections (1) and (2) may be exercised by the Welsh Ministers acting jointly with the Regulator of Social Housing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1) substituted (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. 50(2) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(1) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(27)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 77(2) substituted (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. 50(2) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 77(3) substituted (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. 50(3) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 77 modified (E.W.) (1.12.2008) by The Transfer of Housing Corporation Functions (Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2839), arts. 1(1), 3, Sch. para. 3 (with art. 6) (see S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 77: transfer of functions (E.W.) (1.12.2008) by The Transfer of Housing Corporation Functions (Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2839), arts. 1(1), 2 (see S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(b))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/77",
    "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."
}