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Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1996.

(2) In this Order—

“landlord” means a registered social landlord within the meaning of Part I of the 1996 Act;

“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Associations Act 1985(1);

“the 1988 Act” means the Housing Act 1988(2);

“the 1996 Act” means the Housing Act 1996.

Coming into force

2.  The following provisions of the 1996 Act shall come into force on 24th September 1996—

3.  Subject to the transitional provisions and savings in the Schedule to this Order, the following provisions of the 1996 Act shall come into force on 1st October 1996—

4.  So much of the following provisions of the 1996 Act as confer on the Corporation or the Secretary of State a power to consult, to make determinations, directions, orders or regulations or prepare schemes shall come into force on 1st October 1996—

5.  Section 28(3) of the 1996 Act shall come into force on 1st October 1996 for the purpose of enabling a determination to be made under section 52(2) of the 1988 Act as amended by the 1996 Act.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Paul Beresford

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

16th September 1996