The Race Relations Code of Practice (Housing) (Appointed Day) Order 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 1st October 2006 as the day on which the revised Code of Practice on Racial Equality in Housing will come into effect. This revised Code replaces the two previous Codes of Practice relating to housing: (i) the Code of Practice in Rented Housing, which was brought into operation on 1st May 1991 by the Race Relations Code of Practice (Rented Housing) Order 1991 (“the Rented Housing Order”); and (ii) the Code of Practice in Non-Rented (Owner Occupied) Housing, which was brought into operation on 18th June 1992 by the Race Relations Code of Practice (Non-Rented Housing) Order 1992 (“the Non-Rented Housing Order”). The revised Code of Practice consists of three separate parts that apply to England, Scotland and Wales respectively.

Article 3 revokes the Rented Housing and Non-Rented Housing Orders.

Article 4 of the Order provides that the revised Code of Practice will not apply to proceedings relating to any alleged act of unlawful discrimination committed before 1st October 2006. In such cases, the previous Codes will continue to apply.

A copy of the revised Code of Practice may be purchased from The Stationary Office (TSO Orders, PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN, telephone [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail], internet http://www.tsoshop.co.uk), or from The Stationary Office Bookshops, or downloaded free of charge from the Commission for Racial Equality website: www.cre.gov.uk.

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in connection with the revised Code of Practice and is available from the Commission for Racial Equality at St Dunstan’s House, 201-211 Borough High Street, London SE1 1GZ. A copy has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament.