Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 3191 (C. 111)
Housing, England
The Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 6)(England) Order 2006
Made
27th November 2006
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 270(4) and (5)(c) of the Housing Act 2004( 1 ), makes the following Order:
Citation and application
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 6) (England) Order 2006.
(2) This Order applies in relation to England only.
Commencement
2. The following provisions of the Housing Act 2004 shall come into force on 2nd January 2007—
(a) section 225( 2 ) insofar as it is not already in force;
(b) section 226;
(c) section 265(1) insofar as it relates to paragraph 47 of Schedule 15.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
for Communities and Local Government
Meg Munn
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
27th November 2006
2004 c.34 . The powers conferred by sections 270(4) and (5) are exercisable, as respects England, by the Secretary of State and, as respects Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales. See the definition of the appropriate national authority in section 261(1) of the Housing Act 2004.
So far as section 225 of the Housing Act 2004 confers power to make regulations, it came into force on the passing of that Act by virtue of section 270(2)(b).