Part II Housing Association Finance
Arrangements with local authorities
F161 Power of local housing authority to supply furniture to housing association tenants.
(1)
A local housing authority may sell, or supply under a hire-purchase agreement, furniture to the occupants of houses provided by a housing association under arrangements made with the authority, and may buy furniture for this purpose.
(2)
In this section “hire-purchase agreement” means a hire-purchase agreement or conditional sale agreement within the meaning of the M1Consumer Credit Act 1974.
F2(3)
This section does not apply where the housing association is F3—
(a)
a private registered provider of social housing, or
(b)
a registered social landlord (for which corresponding provision is made by section 22 of the Housing Act 1996).