{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1992/1725",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power of housing trusts to hold land",
  "text": "For the purpose of constructing, improving or repairing, or facilitating or encouraging the construction, improvement or repair of, housing accommodation, a housing trust—\n(a) may acquire and dispose of any estate in land; and\n(b) if it is not already a body corporate shall, for the purpose of holding any estate in land acquired under this Article, and of suing and being sued in respect thereof, be deemed to be a body corporate with perpetual succession, and consequently for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of such an estate shall have a common seal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1992/1725/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:04.648545+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."
}