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Chapter 2 Improvement notices, prohibition orders and hazard awareness notices
Chapter 5 General and miscellaneous provisions relating to enforcement action
Part 3 Selective licensing of other residential accommodation
95.Offences in relation to licensing of houses under this Part
96.Other consequences of operating unlicensed houses: rent repayment orders
98.Other consequences of operating unlicensed houses: restriction on terminating tenancies (England)
98A.Other consequences of operating unlicensed houses: restriction on terminating tenancies (Wales)
Part 4 Additional control provisions in relation to residential accommodation
Chapter 1 Interim and final management orders
Interim and final management orders: other general provisions
Chapter 2 Interim and final empty dwelling management orders
Part 6 Other provisions about housing
Suspension of certain rights in connection with anti-social behaviour
Chapter 2 Disposals attracting discounts other than under right to buy
SCHEDULES
Procedure and appeals relating to improvement notices
Part 2 Service of notices relating to revocation or variation of improvement notices
Improvement notices: enforcement action by local housing authorities
Licences under Parts 2 and 3: procedure and appeals
Part 2 Procedure relating to variation or revocation of licences
Management orders: procedure and appeals
Part 2 Procedure relating to variation or revocation of management orders
Part 3 Appeals against decisions relating to management orders
Further provisions regarding empty dwelling management orders
Part 3 Interim and final EDMOs: general provisions (other than provisions relating to appeals)
Penalty charge notices under section 168
New Schedule 5A to the Housing Act 1985: initial demolition notices
Provisions relating to tenancy deposit schemes
Custodial schemes: termination of tenancies - absent or un-cooperative landlord or tenant
Requirements where deposit is to cease to be retained under an insurance scheme
Notice to be sent to landlord when a direction under paragraph 6(3) is given
10C.(1) The provision made by a tenancy deposit scheme under...
8.In section 18(2) (social housing grants) omit the words from...
9.In section 20(3) (purchase grant where right to acquire exercised)...
10.In section 21(3) (purchase grant in respect of other disposals)...
12.(1) In section 31(2) (offence of intentionally altering etc. document...
13.(1) Section 36 (issue of guidance by the Relevant Authority)...
15.(1) Paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 (transfer of net assets...
16.After paragraph 15 insert— Transfer of net assets on termination...
17.(1) Paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 (general requirements as to...
18.After paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 insert— Companies exempt from...
19.For paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 (appointment of auditors by...
20.(1) Paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 (accounting and audit requirements...
21.After paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 insert— Charities exempt from...
22.(1) Paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 (responsibility for securing compliance...
23.After paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 insert— Disclosure of information...
24.(1) Paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 (inquiry into affairs of...
25.After paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 insert— Evidence (1) For the purposes of an inquiry the person or...
26.(1) Paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 (power of appointed person...
Residential property tribunals: procedure
Financial penalties under section 249A
Buildings which are not HMOs for purposes of this Act (excluding Part 1)
Minor and consequential amendments
Land Compensation Act 1973 (c. 26)
2.The Land Compensation Act 1973 has effect subject to the...
3.(1) Section 29 (right to home loss payment where person...
4.(1) Section 33D (loss payments: exclusions) is amended as follows....
5.(1) Section 37 (disturbance payments for persons with compensatable interests)...
6.(1) Section 39 (duty to rehouse residential occupiers) is amended...
10.The Housing Act 1985 has effect subject to the following...
11.In section 8(2) (periodical review of housing needs) for “section...
12.For section 252(c) (definition of “house in multiple occupation” for...
13.For section 268 (service of notice of demolition and closing...
14.In section 269(1) (right of appeal against demolition or closing...
15.After section 269 insert— Appeals suggesting certain other courses of...
16.In section 274 (demolition orders: power to permit reconstruction of...
17.After section 274 insert— Effect of certain enforcement action under...
18.For section 275 (demolition orders: substitution of closing orders) substitute—...
19.(1) Section 289 (declaration of clearance area) is amended as...
20.For section 300 (purchase of houses liable to be demolished...
21.For section 304 (closing orders in relation to listed buildings)...
22.In section 307(1) (saving for rights arising from breach of...
23.In section 308(3) (approval of owner’s proposals for re-development)—
24.Omit section 310 (certificate of fitness for human habitation resulting...
25.In section 318(1)(a) (power of court to authorise execution of...
26.For section 322 substitute— Minor definitions (1) In this Part the following expressions have the same...
27.In section 323 (index of defined expressions: Part 9) insert...
28.In section 439 (requirements as to fitness of premises before...
29.In section 582 (compulsory purchase orders: restriction on recovery of...
30.For section 584A (compensation payable in case of closing and...
31.For section 584B (repayment on revocation of demolition or closing...
Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53)
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