Housing Act 1985

Section 432.

SCHEDULE 15 Superseded Contributions, Grants, Subsidies, &c.

PART I Loans Under the Housing (Rural Workers) Acts 1926 to 1942

The Housing (Rural Workers) Acts 1926 to 1942, and any enactment so far as it relates to the rate of interest payable on a loan under those Acts, continue to have effect in relation to a loan made under section 2 of the [1926 c. 56.] Housing (Rural Workers) Act 1926 before 10th August 1972.

PART II Exchequer Contributions for Agricultural Housing

(s. 46 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958) Contributions by Secretary of State to local housing authority.

1 (1) Contributions by the Secretary of State to a local housing authority remain payable under section 46 of the [1958 c. 42.] Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 (contributions payable over a period of 40 years for agricultural housing provided under arrangements made with the authority) in pursuance of an undertaking made before 10th August 1972.

(2) The contributions are payable at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct, and subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, impose.

Conditions of payment of contributions.

2 (1) It is a conditions of the payment of a contribution in respect of a house in any year that throughout the year the house—

(a) is reserved for members of the agricultural population, and

(b) if let, is let at rent not exceeding the limit applicable in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph,

and that the local housing authority certify to the Secretary of State that all reasonable steps have been taken to secure the maintenance of the house in a proper state of repair during the year.

(2) The condition specified in sub-paragraph (1)(a) shall be deemed to be observed at any time if the house is let on or subject to a protected or statutory tenancy to which section 99 of the [1977 c. 42.] Rent Act 1977 applies (dwelling-houses let to agricultural workers, etc.) or is subject to a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy within the meaning of the [1976 c. 80.] Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976.

(3) The limit referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) is in the case of a condition imposed before 8th December 1965—

(a) if the tenancy is a regulated tenancy (other than a converted tenancy within the meaning of Schedule 17 to the Rent Act 1977), the rent which would be recoverable if the tenancy had been converted from being a controlled tenancy on the commencement of section 64 of the [1980 c. 51.] Housing Act 1980 and accordingly as if it were a converted tenancy;

(b) if the tenancy is a converted tenancy, or a housing association tenancy within the meaning of Part VI of the Rent Act 1977, the rent recoverable under that Act;

(c) if the tenancy is a protected occupancy or statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976, the rent recoverable in accordance with that Act;

(d) in any other case, such rent as may from time to time be, or have been, agreed between the landlord and the local housing authority or as may, in default of agreement, be or have been determined by the Secretary of State.

(4) The limit referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) is in the case of a condition imposed on or after 8th December 1965 such rent as the local housing authority may from time to time determine as being in their opinion the rent which would have been appropriate for them to charge if the house had been provided by them.

(5) Where the house is let together with other land at a single rent, such proportion of that rent as the local housing authority may determine shall be deemed for the purposes of the condition specified in sub-paragraph (1)(b) to be the rent at which the house is let.

3 (1) In the case of a house completed on or after 18th April 1946 the payment of a contribution for any year during which the house is at any time occupied by a member of the agricultural population in pursuance of a contract of service and otherwise than as a tenant is also subject to the following condition.

(2) The condition is that if the contract of service is terminated—

(a) by less than four weeks' notice given by the employer, or

(b) by dismissal of the employee without notice, or

(c) by the death of either party,

the employer or his personal representatives will permit the employee (or, in the case of his death, any person residing with him at his death) to continue to occupy the house free of charge from the determination of the contract until the expiration of a period of four weeks beginning with the date on which the notice is given, or, if the contract is determined otherwise than by notice, with the date on which it is determined.

Grants payable to owners by local housing authority.

4 (1) Where a contribution is paid to a local housing authority, the authority shall pay by way of annual grant to the owner of the house an amount not less than the contribution paid by the Secretary of State.

(2) No such grant shall be made if before it is made the Secretary of State is satisfied that during the whole or the greater part of the period to which the payment of the grant is referable the house has not been available as a dwelling fit for habitation, unless he is satisfied that that could not with reasonable diligence have been achieved.

(3) Any question as to the period to which a payment is referable shall be determined for the purpose of this paragraph by the Secretary of State.

(4) Where the duty of a local housing authority to make a grant is wholly or partly discharged by virtue of this paragraph, the Secretary of State shall make such consequential reductions as he thinks fit in any sum payable by him to the authority.

No further payments if house vests in local housing authority.

5 Where a house which has been provided under arrangements under section 46 of the [1958 c. 42.] Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 becomes vested in the local housing authority making the arrangements, no further sums are payable by the Secretary of State or the authority in respect of the house under this Part of this Schedule.

PART III Contributions for Improvement of Dwellings by Housing Authorities

(s. 9 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958; s. 13 of the House Purchase and Housing Act 1959).

1 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), contributions by the Secretary of State to a local authority remain payable—

(a) under section 9 of the [1958 c. 42.] Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 (contributions over a period of 20 years towards the cost to local authorities of works of conversion or improvement) in pursuance of proposals approved before 25th August 1969, and

(b) under section 13 of the [1959 c. 33.] House Purchase and Housing Act 1959 (contributions over a period of 20 years in respect of standard amenities provided by local authorities), in pursuance of applications approved before 25th August 1969.

(2) No contribution is payable under this paragraph in respect of a dwelling within a local housing authority’s Housing Revenue Account or a new town corporation’s housing account.

(3) The contributions are payable at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct, and subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, impose.

(4) The amount or duration of any contribution payable under this paragraph to which section 25(2) of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 applied immediately before the commencement of this Act (payments arising out of the exercise of housing powers by county councils) may be reduced by the the Secretary of State at his discretion.

(ss. 17 to 20 of the Housing Act 1969).

2 (1) Contributions by the Secretary of State to a housing authority remain payable under section 18 or 19 of the [1969 c. 33.] Housing Act 1969 (improvement contributions or standard contributions payable over a period of 20 years for dwellings converted or improved by the authority) in pursuance of applications approved before 2nd December 1974.

(2) The contributions are payable at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct, and subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, impose.

(3) No contribution is payable under this paragraph in respect of a dwelling within a local housing authority’s Housing Revenue Account or a new town corporation’s housing account.

(4) The amount or duration of any contribution payable under this paragraph to which section 25(2) of the [1958 c. 42.] Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 Act applied immediately before the commencement of this Act (payments arising out of the exercise of housing powers by county councils) may be reduced by the Secretary of State at his discretion.

(s. 79 of the Housing Act 1974).

3 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), contributions by the Secretary of State to a housing authority remain payable under section 79 of the [1974 c. 44.] Housing Act 1974 (improvement contributions payable over a period of 20 years) in pursuance of applications approved before 8th August 1980.

(2) No contribution is payable under this paragraph in respect of dwellings within a local housing authority’s Housing Revenue Account or a new town corporation’s housing account.

(3) The contributions are payable subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, impose.

PART IV Town Development Subsidy

(s. 9 of the Housing Finance Act 1972; s. 5 of the Housing Rents and Subsidies Act 1975) Transitional town development subsidy.

1 (1) Transitional town development subsidy is payable each year, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule, to a sending authority to whom town development subsidy under section 9 of the [1972 c. 47.] Housing Finance Act 1972 was payable for the year 1974-75; and the amount of the subsidy, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, is the amount of town development subsidy payable to the authority for the year 1974-75.

(2) The subsidy is payable for the credit of the sending authority’s general rate fund.

2 (1) The subsidy is payable by the Secretary of State at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may direct, and subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, impose.

(2) The payment of subsidy is subject to the making of a claim for it in such form and containing such particulars as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine.

(3) The amount of the subsidy for any year shall be calculated to the nearest pound, by disregarding an odd amount of £0·50, or less, and by treating an odd amount exceeding £0·50 as a whole pound.

(4) A direction or determination under this paragraph may contain supplementary or incidental provisions and may be made to apply to a specified description of authorities or to a specified authority.

Reduction or discontinuance of subsidy.

3 (1) The Secretary of State may reduce or discontinue a sending authority’s transitional town development subsidy if a dwelling in respect of which it is payable—

(a) has been demolished,

(b) has been disposed of by the receiving authority,

(c) is not fit to be used, or is not being used, for letting as a dwelling, or

(d) in any other circumstances he considers relevant.

(2) The Secretary of State may from time to time determine for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) the circumstances in which a dwelling is to be treated as having been demolished or disposed of,

(b) the circumstances in which a dwelling is to be treated as not fit to be used, or as not being used, for letting as a dwelling,

(c) in which circumstances other than those mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (c) an authority’s transitional town development subsidy is to be reduced or discontinued, and

(d) the method by which any calculation is to be made;

and the power conferred by paragraph (b) above also includes power to determine what constitutes letting as a dwelling.

(3) A determination under this paragraph may contain supplementary or incidental provisions and may be made to apply to a specified description of authorities or dwellings or to a specified authority.

Payments to receiving authority.

4 (1) Where transitional town development subsidy is payable, the sending authority shall for each year pay to the receiving authority four times the amount of the sending authority’s transitional town development subsidy attributable to dwellings of the receiving authority which are available in that year for tenants from the sending authority.

(2) The payments are for the credit of the receiving authority’s general rate fund.

Communication of subsidy and payments to receiving authority.

5 (1) The Secretary of State may, with the agreement of the sending authority and the receiving authority, determine—

(a) to commute further payments of transitional town development subsidy into a single payment of an amount to be determined by him or calculated in a manner determined by him, and

(b) to commute the corresponding payments by the sending authority to the receiving authority under paragraph 4 into a single payment of four times that payable under paragraph (a).

(2) In making a determination the Secretary of State shall make such allowance, if any, as appears to him appropriate for circumstances in which, if there were no commutation, his power under paragraph 3 to reduce or discontinue the sending authority’s transitional town development subsidy might be exercised.

Meaning of “receiving authority”.

6 In this part of this Schedule “receiving authority” means the council of a receiving district within the meaning of the [1952 c. 54.] Town Development Act 1952.