Housing Act 1957

121 Arrangements with housing associations for improvement of housing

(1) A local authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make arrangements with a housing association for—

(a) the provision of dwellings by the association by means of the conversion of houses or other buildings,

(b) the alteration, enlargement, repair or improvement of dwellings by the housing association.

(2) Arrangements made under this section shall include such terms with regard to such matters, including the rents at which the dwellings are to be let, as may appear to the local authority to be expedient in view of the needs of their district in relation to housing and may be approved by the Minister.

(3) In this section the reference to repair does not include the execution of works of ordinary repair except so far as the execution thereof is incidental to or connected with the execution of works of improvement, alteration or enlargement or of works of repair not being ordinary works of repair.

(4) As respects the administrative county of London, other than the City of London, both the metropolitan borough council and the London County Council shall be local authorities for the purposes of this section.