{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/36",
  "legislation_title": "Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 259 (suspension of officer etc during inquiry)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), for “non-profit” substitute “private”;\n(b) in subsection (1)(b), for “either” substitute “any”;\n(c) in subsection (3), for the words from “that” to the end substitute\n“that—\n(a) the affairs of the registered provider have been mismanaged, or\n(b) the registered provider has failed to meet a standard under section 193, 194 or 194C.”;\n(d) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Case 3 applies if the regulator is satisfied that an officer, employee or agent of the registered provider is obstructing, or failing to co-operate with, the inquiry.”;\n(e) for subsection (4) substitute—\n“(4) The regulator may by order—\n(a) where Case 1 or Case 2 applies, suspend any officer, employee or agent of the registered provider who it thinks has contributed to the mismanagement or failure, or\n(b) where Case 3 applies, suspend the officer, employee or agent who it thinks is obstructing, or failing to co-operate with, the inquiry.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 15 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 46(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 15 in force at 1.4.2024 by S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/36/schedule/3/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:52:00.263156+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."
}