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After section 6 of the Housing Act 1996 insert—
(1)A registered social landlord may give the Welsh Ministers an undertaking in respect of any matter concerning housing.
(2)The Welsh Ministers may prescribe a procedure to be followed in giving an undertaking.
(3)The Welsh Ministers must have regard to any undertaking offered or given in exercising a regulatory or enforcement power.
(4)The Welsh Ministers may base a decision about whether to exercise a regulatory or enforcement power wholly or partly on the extent to which an undertaking has been honoured.
(5)In this section, “regulatory or enforcement power” means a power exercisable under any of the following provisions—
section 35,
section 37,
section 38,
Chapter 4A of this Part,
paragraphs 4 and 6 to 15H of Part 2 of Schedule 1,
Part 3A of Schedule 1,
Part 4 of Schedule 1.
(6)This section does not apply in relation to a registered social landlord's provision of housing in England.”
Commencement Information
I1S. 41 in force at 18.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(f)