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Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985

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5(1)The consolidating Acts and the Local Government Act 1985 shall be construed and have effect as if the consolidating Acts had come into force immediately after that Act.E+W

(2)References to a local authority in provisions of the consolidating Acts which confer powers, duties, rights or immunities by reference to things done by or in relation to a local authority before 1st April 1986 include references to the councils abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.

(3)Sub-paragraph (2) applies in particular to the following provisions—

  • section 45(2)(b) of the Housing Act 1985 (restriction on service charges payable after disposal of house by local authority).

  • section 444(4) of that Act and section 85(4) of the M1Housing Associations Act 1985 (power to agree to indemnify mortgagee of property disposed of by local authority),

  • section 573(1) of the M2Housing Act 1985 (definition of public sector authority for the purposes of assistance for persons having acquired defective housing from such an authority),

  • paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4 to that Act (public sector landlords for purposes of qualifying period for the right to buy),

  • section 41(2) of the M3Housing Associations Act 1985 (approval of programme for purposes of housing association grant), and

  • section 14(4) of the M4Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (exclusion of implied repairing obligation in case of lease granted by local authority).

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