Housing (Wales) Act 2014

Housing Act 1996

11 In section 198 (referral of case to another local housing authority)—

(a) after subsection (4) insert—

“(4A) Subsection (4) is to be construed, in a case where the other authority is an authority in Wales, as if the reference to “this Part” were a reference to Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014.”

(b) in subsection (5), after “case” insert “which does not involve a referral to a local housing authority in Wales”;

(c) after that subsection, insert—

“(5A) The question whether the conditions for referral of a case involving a referral to a local housing authority in Wales shall be decided by agreement between the notifying authority and the notified authority or, in default of agreement, in accordance with such arrangements as the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers may jointly direct by order.”;

(d) in subsection (6)(b), after “Secretary of State” insert “or, in the case of an order under subsection (5A), to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers”;

(e) in subsection (7)—

(i) for “No such order shall” substitute “An order under this section shall not”; and

(ii) at the end, insert “and, in the case of a joint order, a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales”.