Housing (Wales) Measure 2011

29 Restriction on repeat applications

(1) Subsection (2) applies where the Welsh Ministers have refused to grant a local housing authority’s application for a direction under this Part.

(2) Where this subsection applies, the local housing authority which made the application must not, during the period of two years beginning with the date of refusal, make an application for a direction that is substantially the same as the direction the application for which was refused.

(3) Subsection (4) applies where the Welsh Ministers have issued a direction under section 6 (the “relevant direction”) (whether or not there has been a variation under section 13 or 17 or an extension under section 22).

(4) Where this subsection applies, the local housing authority must not, during the period described in subsection (5), make an application under section 1 for another direction that is substantially the same as the relevant direction.

(5) The period referred to in subsection (4)—

(a) begins on the date that the relevant direction has effect, and

(b) ends two years from the date on which the relevant direction ceases to have effect.

(6) In a case where there has been a variation under section 13 or 17, the references in subsections (4) and (5)(b) to the relevant direction are references to the direction having effect after the variation.

(7) In a case where there has been an extension under section 22, the reference in subsection (5)(b) to the time when the relevant direction ceases to have effect is a reference to the time when the direction ceases to have effect in accordance with the extension.