http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/42/section/183/1996-12-17

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

An Act to make provision with respect to the members, officers and otherstaff and the procedure of local authorities; to amend Part III of the LocalGovernment Act 1974 and Part II of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 and to provide for a national code of local government conduct; to makefurther provision about the finances and expenditure of local authorities(including provision with respect to housing subsidies) and about companiesin which local authorities have interests; to make provision for and inconnection with renewal areas, grants towards the cost of improvement andrepair of housing accommodation and the carrying out of works of maintenance,repair and improvement; to amend the Housing Act 1985 and Part III of theLocal Government Finance Act 1982; to make amendments of and consequentialupon Parts I, II and IV of the Housing Act 1988; to amend the Local GovernmentFinance Act 1988 and the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987and certain enactments relating, as respects Scotland, to rating andvaluation, and to provide for the making of grants; to make provision withrespect to the imposition of charges by local authorities; to make furtherprovision about certain existing grants and about financial assistance to andplanning by local authorities in respect of emergencies; to amend sections 102and 211 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973; to amend the Local LandCharges Act 1975; to enable local authorities in Wales to be known solely byWelsh language names; to provide for the transfer of new town housing stock;to amend certain of the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 relatingto a secure tenant’s right to purchase his house; to amend section 47 of theRace Relations Act 1976; to confer certain powers on the Housing Corporation,Housing for Wales and Scottish Homes; to make provision about security oftenure for certain tenants under long tenancies; to provide for the making ofgrants and giving of guarantees in respect of certain activities carried onin relation to the construction industry; to provide for the repeal of certainenactments relating to improvement notices, town development and educationsupport grants; to make, as respects Scotland, further provision in relationto the phasing of progression to registered rent for houses let by housingassociations or Scottish Homes and in relation to the circumstances in whichrent increases under assured tenancies may be secured; and for connectedpurposes.

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Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 65(2)(b)(ii)

Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

Sch. 2

para. 11

s. 73

art. 2

Sch. 1

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 76A

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Wales Act 2014

s. 24(2)

s. 29(5)(b)

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 87(1A)

Wales Act 2014

s. 24(5)

s. 29(5)(b)

Part IX Miscellaneous and General

Other provisions

183 Extension of powers of Housing Corporation and Housing for Wales to give financial assistance.

For section 87 of the M1Housing Associations Act 1985 (grants towards expenses in promoting or assisting registered housing associations) there shall be substituted the following section—

87 Financial assistance with respect to formation, management, etc. of certain housing associations.
1
The Corporation may give financial assistance to any person in respect of the following activities—
a
promoting and giving advice on the formation of registered housing associations and co-operative housing associations (in this section referred to collectively as “relevant associations”);
b
managing, providing services for, and giving advice on the running of, relevant associations; and
c
assisting tenants and licensees of a relevant association to take part in the management of the association or of some or all of the dwellings provided by the association.
2
Assistance under this section may be in the form of grants, loans, guarantees or incurring expenditure for the benefit of the person assisted or in such other way as the Corporation considers appropriate, except that the Corporation may not, in giving any form of financial assistance, purchase loan or share capital in a company.
3
With respect to financial assistance under this section, the following—
a
the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for assistance,
b
the circumstances in which assistance is or is not to be given,
c
the method for calculating, and any limitations on, the amount of assistance, and
d
the manner in which, and the time or times at which, assistance is to be given,
shall be such as may be specified by the Corporation, acting in accordance with such principles as it may from time to time determine.
4
In giving assistance under this section, the Corporation may provide that the assistance is conditional upon compliance by the person to whom the assistance is given with such conditions as it may specify.
5
Where assistance under this section is given in the form of a grant, subsections (1), (2) and (7) to (9) of section 52 of the Housing Act 1988 (recovery, etc. of grants) shall apply as they apply in relation to a grant to which that section applies, but with the substitution, for any reference in those subsections to the registered housing association to which the grant has been given, of a reference to the person to whom assistance is given under this section.
6
Section 53 of the Housing Act 1988 (determinations under Part II) shall apply in relation to a determination under this section as it applies to a determination under sections 50 to 52 of that Act.