PART 2

HOMELESSNESS
CHAPTER 1

HOMELESSNESS REVIEWS AND STRATEGIES

Duty to carry out a homelessness review and formulate a homelessness strategy
50
1
A local housing authority must (periodically, as required by this section)—
a
carry out a homelessness review for its area, and
b
formulate and adopt a homelessness strategy based on the results of that review.
2
The authority must adopt a homelessness strategy in 2018 and a new homelessness strategy in every fourth year after 2018.
3
The Welsh Ministers may amend subsection (2) by order.
4
A council of a county or county borough in Wales must take its homelessness strategy into account in the exercise of its functions (including functions other than its functions as local housing authority).
5
Nothing in subsection (4) affects any duty or requirement arising apart from this section.
6
In this Chapter “homeless” has the meaning given by section 55 and “homelessness” is to be interpreted accordingly.
S. 50 in force at 1.12.2014 for specified purposes by S.I. 2014/3127, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. 2
S. 50 in force at 27.4.2015 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1272, art. 2, Sch. para. 1