PART 2 E+W REGISTERED SOCIAL LANDLORDS

CHAPTER 2 E+W VOLUNTARY UNDERTAKINGS

41 Voluntary undertakings E+W

After section 6 of the Housing Act 1996 insert—

“Voluntary undertakings E+W

6A Voluntary undertakings

(1) A registered social landlord may give the Welsh Ministers an undertaking in respect of any matter concerning housing.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may prescribe a procedure to be followed in giving an undertaking.

(3) The Welsh Ministers must have regard to any undertaking offered or given in exercising a regulatory or enforcement power.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may base a decision about whether to exercise a regulatory or enforcement power wholly or partly on the extent to which an undertaking has been honoured.

(5) In this section, “regulatory or enforcement power” means a power exercisable under any of the following provisions—

• section 35,

• section 37,

• section 38,

• Chapter 4A of this Part,

• paragraphs 4 and 6 to 15H of Part 2 of Schedule 1,

• Part 3A of Schedule 1,

• Part 4 of Schedule 1.

(6) This section does not apply in relation to a registered social landlord's provision of housing in England.”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 41 in force at 18.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(f)