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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996-commencement-no-1-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2352",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996-commencement-no-1-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 11th September 1996 —\nsection 74\nsection 79\nsection 86\nsection 89\nsection 94\n(2) So much of the following provisions of the Act as confers on the Secretary of State or the Lord Advocate a power to consult, to make orders, regulations or determinations, to give directions, guidance, approvals or consents, to specify matters, or to impose conditions shall come into force on 11th September 1996 —\nsections 2 and 3\nsection 7\nsection 12\nsection 17\nsection 19\nsection 25\nsection 27\nsection 30\nsection 33\nsections 44 to 47\nsections 51 and 52\nsection 61\nsections 63 and 64\nsections 67 and 68\nsection 76\nsection 85\nsection 87\nsection 92\nsections 101 and 102\nsections 104 to 106\nsection 108\nsection 114\nsections 131 to 135\nsection 139\nsection 140.\n(3) Section 125 of the Act so far as it relates to paragraphs 21(1) to (3) of Part III of Schedule 2 shall come into force on 1st October 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2352/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}