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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-england-order-2006/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-england-order-2006/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-england-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Additional permissible purposes",
  "text": "(1) The following are specified as permissible purposes additional to those specified in section 2(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (eligibility for registration as a social landlord)—\n(a) the provision, construction, improvement or management of sites where caravans may be stationed for use as temporary or permanent residences for gypsies and travellers; and\n(b) the provision of services to the site of any description, including the arranging or carrying out of works of maintenance or repair or encouraging or facilitating the carrying out of such work..\n(2) In paragraph (1)(a)—\n“caravan” shall be construed in accordance with article 3; and\n“gypsies and travellers” means—\n(a) persons with a cultural tradition of nomadism or of living in a caravan; and\n(b) all other persons of a nomadic habit of life, whatever their race or origin, including—\n(i) such persons who, on grounds only of their own or their family’s or dependant’s educational or health needs or old age, have ceased to travel temporarily or permanently; and\n(ii) members of an organised group of travelling showpeople or circus people (whether or not travelling together as such).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1968/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:59.691572+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."
}