Explanatory Notes

Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 17

22 July 2008

Structure of the Act

Part 2 – Regulation of Social Housing

Chapter 4 – Registered providers
Restructuring and dissolution
Section 166 - Winding up petition by the regulator

485.This section broadly replicates the effect of paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the 1996 Act.

486.Subsection (1) specifies that the effect of this section is restricted to non-profit registered providers that are either registered companies, or industrial and provident societies.

487.Subsection (2) provides that the regulator may present a petition for the registered provider to be wound up under the Insolvency Act 1986 on one of the grounds specified in subsections (3) to (5) which are that: