{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-housing-assistance-england-and-wales-order-2002/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-housing-assistance-england-and-wales-order-2002/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1860",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-housing-assistance-england-and-wales-order-2002",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision of assistance: supplementary",
  "text": "A local housing authority may not exercise the power conferred by article 3 in any case unless—\n(a) they have adopted a policy for the provision of assistance under that article;\n(b) they have given public notice of the adoption of the policy;\n(c) they have secured that—\n(i) a document in which the policy is set out in full is available for inspection, free of charge, at their principal office at all reasonable times; and\n(ii) copies of a document containing a summary of the policy may be obtained by post (on payment, where a reasonable charge is made, of the amount of the charge); and\n(d) the power is exercised in that case in accordance with that policy.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 19.7.2002, see art. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1860/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:28.295035+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."
}