{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-housing-management-and-security-work-exemptions-england-amendment-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2733",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Housing Management and Security Work) (Exemptions) (England) (Amendment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-housing-management-and-security-work-exemptions-england-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Housing Management and Security Work) (Exemptions) (England) Order 1997",
  "text": "(1) The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Housing Management and Security Work) (Exemptions) (England) Order 1997 is amended—\n(a) in article 2 (housing management)—\n(i) in paragraph (1), by the omission of the definition of “relevant year”; and\n(ii) by the substitution of the following for paragraphs (2) and (3)—\n“(2) In each financial year commencing with that beginning on 1st April 1999, housing management carried out by a defined authority shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as, on the 31st March immediately preceding the beginning of the year in question, the authority’s housing stock is not more than 4,000.”;\n(b) by the omission of article 3 (security work); and\n(c) by the insertion, at the end of article 4 (revocations), of the words “with effect from 1st April 1999”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/176."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “financial year” in section 3(5) of the Local Government Act 1988."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2733/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}