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9Duty to rehouse displaced residentsS
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(1)This section applies where—

(a)a person is to be displaced permanently from any living accommodation as a result of the implementation of an HRA action plan, and

(b)that living accommodation was the only or main residence of that person on the day on which notice of the relevant HRA designation order was first given in accordance with schedule 1.

(2)Where this section applies the local authority must, if so requested by the person to be displaced, ensure—

(a)that the person is provided with suitable alternative living accommodation on reasonable terms, and

(b)in so far as practicable, that the living accommodation which is so provided is in, or within a reasonable distance of, the locality of the living accommodation from which the person is to be displaced.

(3)The reference in subsection (2) to suitable alternative living accommodation is a reference to living accommodation which is suitable for occupation by the person to be displaced and any other person whose only or main residence on the day referred to in subsection (1)(b) would, but for the location of that other person's place of work or of any educational institution which the person attends, have been the living accommodation concerned.

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I1S. 9 in force at 1.4.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/122, art. 3

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