Explanatory Notes

Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 17

22 July 2008

Structure of the Act

Part 2 – Regulation of Social Housing

Chapter 5 - Disposal of property
Introductory
Section 171 - Power to dispose

500.This section states that a registered provider may dispose of land, subject to the following provisions of this Chapter. This section broadly replicates the effect of section 8 of the 1996 Act which gives RSLs power to dispose of land subject to section 9 of that Act.

501.This section specifies that a non-profit registered provider may dispose of the landlord’s interest under a secure tenancy only to another non-profit registered provider, not to a profit-making registered provider or an unregistered person.