{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996.json",
  "id": "uksi/1996/2256",
  "title": "The Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes or Objects) Order 1996",
  "short_title": "Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes or Objects) 1996",
  "long_title": "Section 2 of the Housing Act 1996 makes provision for the eligibility of certain bodies (such as charitable housing associations) for registration as social landlords with the Housing Corporation or, in Wales, Housing for Wales. Section 2(4) sets out certain permissible additional purposes or objects that such a body may have as a condition for registration.",
  "citation": "S.I. 1996/2256",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1996",
  "number": "2256",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1996-09-06",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 13,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/1",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Citation and commencement",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/article-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/2",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Interpretation",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/article-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/3",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": "Additional permissible purposes or objects",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/article-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/4",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": "Priority of mortgages",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/article-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "note",
      "kind": "note",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Explanatory note",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/note",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affected_provisions": "art.2 defn(s).",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/985",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) Order 1999",
      "affecting_provisions": "art.3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "art. 2 renumbered as art. 2(1)",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 535(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 535(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 535(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 535(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(2)(b)(c)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2863",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (Amendment) (England) Order 2005",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 3(d)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2863",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (Amendment) (England) Order 2005",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2863",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (Amendment) (England) Order 2005",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(aa)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2831",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2008",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed in part",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 3(d)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 3(d)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1996/52",
      "title": "Housing Act 1996",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
      "provisions": [
        "section/2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 13,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-permissible-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1996/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2256",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:10.518138+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."
}