Housing Associations Act 1985

[[F1 15 Payments and benefits to committee members, etc. S

(1) A registered housing association F2 . . . shall not make a payment or grant a benefit to—

(a) a committee member (including a co-opted member), officer or employee of the association, or

(b) a person who at any time within the preceding twelve months has been a person within paragraph (a), or

(c) a close relative of a person within paragraph (a) or (b), or

(d) a business trading for profit of which a person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) is a principal proprietor or in the management of which such a person is directly concerned,

except as permitted by this section [F3 or by section 15A of this Act]].

(2) The following are permitted—

(a) payments made or benefits granted to an officer or employee under his contract of employment with the association;

(b) the payment of expenses to a committee member (including a co-opted member) or to an officer of the association who does not have a contract of employment with the association;

(c) any such payment as may be made in accordance with section 13(2) (interest payable in accordance with the rules and certain sums payable by a fully mutual housing association to a person who has ceased to be a member);

(d) the grant or renewal of a tenancy by a co-operative housing association;

(e) where a tenancy of a house has been granted to, or to a close relative of, a person who later became a committee member (including a co-opted member), officer or employee, the grant to that tenant of a new tenancy, whether of the same or another house.

F4 (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F5 (g) [F6 payments made or benefits granted by a registered housing]association with the approval of Scottish Homes (which approval may be given only in relation to a class or classes of case).]

F7 (2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) Where an association pays a sum or grants a benefit in contravention of this section, the association may recover the sum or the value of the benefit, and proceedings for its recovery shall be taken by the association if [F8 Scottish Homes]so directs.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 15 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, ss. 227, 232, Sch. 19 Pt. I; S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (subject to transitional provisions and savings in Sch.)

F2 Words in s. 15(1) repealed (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with savings in art. 4(2)(3))

F3 Words added by Housing (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 65, SIF 61), s. 25(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)

F4 S. 15(2)(f) repealed (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with art. 4(2)(3))

F5 S. 15(2)(g) inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59 (2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 9(1)

F6 Words in s. 15(2)(g) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(11)(a)

F7 S. 15(2A) repealed (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with art. 4(2)(3))

F8 Words in s. 15(3) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(11)(b)