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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006/section-178",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/178",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "178",
  "heading": "Registered social landlords: permissible purposes",
  "text": "In section 58(3) (permissible purposes of registered social landlords) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for the words “, either exclusively or together with other persons” substitute “ (or for its residents and other persons together) ”,\n(b) after paragraph (f) insert—\n“(g) promoting or improving the economic, social or environmental well-being of—\n(i) its residents (or its residents and other persons together), or\n(ii) the area in which the houses or hostels it provides are situated.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/1/section/178",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:19.148871+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."
}