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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-measure-2011/section-40",
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  "legislation": "mwa/2011/5",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Consultation",
  "text": "After section 35A of the Housing Act 1996 insert—\n“Consultation\n35B Before publishing, revising or withdrawing guidance under section 35A the Welsh Ministers must consult—\n(a) one or more bodies appearing to them to represent the interests of registered social landlords,\n(b) one or more bodies appearing to them to represent the interests of tenants,\n(c) one or more bodies appearing to them to represent the interests of local housing authorities, and\n(d) the Auditor General for Wales.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 18.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/5/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:38.200168+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."
}