Housing Act 1974

43 (1) In section 34 of that Act (disturbance payments for persons without compensatable interests), subsection (1) shall be amended—

(a) by inserting, in paragraph (c), after the words " the carrying out of " , the words "any improvement to a house or building on the land or of " ;

(b) by adding, at the end of paragraph (c), the following paragraph:—

“(d) where the land has previously been acquired by a registered housing association, within the meaning of the Housing Act 1974, the carrying out by that association of any improvement to a house or building on the land or of redevelopment on that land”; and

(c) by making the like amendments as are specified, in relation to section 27(1) of that Act, in paragraph 42(1)(b) above.

(2) In subsection (3) of that section for the words " or redevelopment as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (c)" there shall be substituted the words " improvement or redevelopment as is mentioned in paragraph (a), (c) or (d) ".

(3) After subsection (3) of that section, there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) above a person shall not be treated as displaced in consequence of the carrying out of any improvement to a house or building unless he is permanently displaced in consequence of the carrying out of the improvement in question”.

(4) In subsection (8) of that section after the word " undertaking " there shall be inserted the word " ' improvement' ".