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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011/section-176",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/20",
  "legislation_title": "Localism Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011",
  "path": "section/176",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "176",
  "heading": "Standards facilitating exchange of tenancies",
  "text": "(1) In section 193 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (power for regulator to set standards for registered providers) in subsection (2) after paragraph (g) insert—\n“(ga) methods of assisting tenants to exchange tenancies,”.\n(2) In section 197(2) of that Act (power of Secretary of State to give directions to regulator) after paragraph (c) insert\n“, or\n(d) methods of assisting tenants to exchange tenancies.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 176 in force at 15.1.2012 by S.I. 2012/57, art. 4(1)(s) (with arts. 6, 7, arts. 9-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/section/176",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:15.217969+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}