{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/26",
  "legislation_title": "Renters’ Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renters-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Housing Act 1996",
  "text": "In section 195 (duties in cases of threatened homelessness), in subsection (6)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 (orders for possession on expiry or termination of assured shorthold tenancy)” substitute “section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 (notice of proceedings for possession)”;\n(b) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) for “will expire” substitute “specifies a date that is”;\n(ii) for “expired” substitute “passed”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 145(1)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 51 in force at 1.5.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/26/schedule/2/paragraph/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:43.804012+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."
}