{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Housing Rents (Exceptions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Exemptions for private registered providers of social housing",
  "text": "(1) The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of section 25(5) of and paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2 to the Act as the condition for the issue of a direction by the regulator are as set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) The circumstances are that—\n(a) the private registered provider has received a transfer of particular social housing from another private registered provider (“the transferee”); and\n(b) immediately before the social housing became the transferee’s social housing a direction under regulation 15, or under section 25 of, or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the Act applied in relation to the social housing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.4.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/390/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:16.193935+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."
}