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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011/section-178",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011/section-178.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/20",
  "legislation_title": "Localism Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011",
  "path": "section/178",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "178",
  "heading": "Transfer of functions from the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords to the Homes and Communities Agency",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 16 (transfer of functions from the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords to the Homes and Communities Agency) has effect.\n(2) In that Schedule—\nPart 1 amends the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (regulation of social housing) so as to—\nabolish the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords (“the Office”),\ncreate the Regulation Committee of the Homes and Communities Agency (“the HCA”), and\ntransfer the functions of the Office to the HCA acting through the Committee,\nPart 2 makes consequential amendments to other enactments,\nPart 3 contains provision transferring property, rights and liabilities of the Office to the HCA, and\nPart 4 contains transitional and saving provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 178 in force at 15.1.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/57, art. 4(1)(t) (with arts. 6, 7, arts. 9-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 178 in force at 1.4.2012 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(d) (with arts. 9, 11, 14, 15, 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/section/178",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:11.003851+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}