{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/36",
  "legislation_title": "Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Designation",
  "text": "Section 115 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (profit-making and non-profit organisations) is amended as follows—\n(a) omit subsection (2);\n(b) for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) A body is a non-profit organisation if—\n(a) it is a registered or non-registrable charity and satisfies Conditions 1 and 2, or\n(b) otherwise, it satisfies Conditions 1 to 3.”;\n(c) in subsection (4)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), omit “or”;\n(ii) omit paragraph (b);\n(d) after subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) The fact that a body is prohibited by its constitution from trading for profit does not, of itself, mean that it is a body which does not trade for profit for the purposes of subsection (4)(a).”;\n(e) in subsection (8) omit “(2) or”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 46(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 1.4.2024 by S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/36/section/8",
    "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."
}