{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Duty to help to secure accommodation for homeless applicants",
  "text": "(1) A local housing authority must help to secure that suitable accommodation is available for occupation by an applicant, if the authority is satisfied that the applicant is—\n(a) homeless, and\n(b) eligible for help.\n(2) But the duty in subsection (1) does not apply if the authority refers the application to another local housing authority (see section 80).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 73 in force at 27.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/1272, art. 2, Sch. para. 24"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/3",
      "affecting_title": "Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/7/section/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:23.296415+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."
}