This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1993/651 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
21st April 1993
Laid before Parliament
23rd April 1993
Coming into force
23rd April 1993
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 113(1) and 114 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Housing) (Consequential Amendments) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 23rd April 1993.
(2) This Order extends to England and Wales only.
2. For paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance (Housing) (Consequential Amendments) Order 1993(2) (amendments to the Housing Act 1988(3)) substitute—
“18. After section 41A (amounts attributable to services)(4) insert
41B. A billing authority within the meaning of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 shall, if so requested in writing by a rent officer or rent assessment committee in connection with his or their functions under any enactment, inform the rent officer or rent assessment committee in writing whether or not a particular dwelling (within the meaning of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992) is, or was at any time specified in the request, an exempt dwelling for the purposes of that Part of that Act.”.”
Department of the Environment
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
21st April 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order corrects a defect in the Local Government Finance (Housing) (Consequential Amendments) Order 1993, which amended housing legislation in consequence of council tax under the Local Government Finance Act 1992. This Order inserts section 41B into the Housing Act 1988.
Section 41A was inserted by paragraph 103 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 c. 6.