The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provisions) Order 2009
This Order brings into force, on 2nd March 2009, section 314 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (“the Act”). The provisions commenced make changes to housing legislation in the United Kingdom in response to the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of Morris v. Westminster City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 1184, which declared that the provisions of section 185(4) of the Housing Act 1996(c.52) were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.