{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/53",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-grants-construction-and-regeneration-act-1996",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Delayed payment of mandatory grant.",
  "text": "(1) The local housing authority may approve an application for a grant on terms that payment of the grant, or part of it, will not be made before a date specified in the notification of their decision on the application.\n(2) That date shall not be more than twelve months, or such other period as may be specified by order of the Secretary of State, after the date of the application.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(1) substituted (19.7.2003) by The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1860), arts. 1(3), 11(1), Sch. 3 para. 15 (with art. 11(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/53/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:44.925414+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."
}