The Housing Act 1996 (Commencement No. 2 and Savings) Order 1996

Commencement

2.—(1) So much of the following provisions of the Act as confers on the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State the powers to make orders, regulations or rules shall come into force on 23 August 1996—

• section 83(3),

• section 86(4) and (5),

• section 92 in so far as it relates to paragraph 7 of Part IV of Schedule 6,

• section 96 in so far as it relates to the insertion by Schedule 7 of paragraphs 7(2)(a) and 9(2)(a) of Schedule 2A to the Housing Act 1988(1),

• section 106 in so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Schedule 9, and

• section 119.

(2) The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on the commencement date subject to the savings in the Schedule to this Order—

• section 84,

• section 88,

• sections 89 to 91

• section 92 (in so far as it will not already be in force),

• section 93,

• section 105,

• sections 107 to 109,

• sections 111 to 117, and

• section 227 in so far as it relates to the repeals to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987(2) in Part III of Schedule 19 and to the repeals in Part V of that Schedule (except the repeal to section 39(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993(3)).

(1)

1988 c. 50.

(2)

1987 c. 31.

(3)

1993 c. 28.