Miscellaneous
Section 186 - Former registered providers
534.This section ensures that sections 171 to 175 (provisions on disposals) continue to apply in respect of any property owned by a person at the time it was registered. This is equivalent to section 9(6) of the 1996 Act.
Section 187 – Change of use, etc.
535.This section provides that the disposal consent provisions continue to apply in relation to the disposal of land where it ceases to be a dwelling, or where exception 2 or 3 in section 173 applies, a change of use of that land.
Section 188 – Trustees
536.This section broadly replicates the effect of the first sentence of section 8(2) of the 1996 Act.
Section 189 – Charities
537.This section makes it clear that nothing in this Chapter authorises a charity to effect a disposal which it would otherwise not have power to effect. This broadly replicates the effect of the second sentence of section 8(2) of the 1996 Act.