# Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, Section 8: Designation

Extent: E+W

Section 115 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (profit-making and non-profit organisations) is amended as follows—
(a) omit subsection (2);
(b) for subsection (3) substitute—
“(3) A body is a non-profit organisation if—
(a) it is a registered or non-registrable charity and satisfies Conditions 1 and 2, or
(b) otherwise, it satisfies Conditions 1 to 3.”;
(c) in subsection (4)—
(i) in paragraph (a), omit “or”;
(ii) omit paragraph (b);
(d) after subsection (6) insert—
“(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).”;
(e) in subsection (8) omit “(2) or”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/36/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-regulation-act-2023/section-8
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