Part 2Regulation of Social Housing
Chapter 1Introduction
Other key concepts
80Provider of social housing
(1)
In this Chapter a reference to the provider of social housing is to be construed as follows.
Type of social housing | Provider |
|---|---|
Low cost rental accommodation | The landlord |
Low cost home ownership accommodation: shared ownership | The landlord |
Low cost home ownership accommodation: equity percentage | “The seller” within the meaning of section 70(5)(a) |
Low cost home ownership accommodation: shared ownership trust | The “social landlord” within the meaning of paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 9 to the Finance Act 2003 |
(2)
Chapter 3 provides for the establishment of a register of providers of social housing: persons listed in the register—
(a)
may be referred to in an enactment or other instrument as “registered providers of social housing”, and
(b)
are referred to in this Part as “registered providers”.
F1(3)
Persons listed in the register who are not local authorities—
(a)
may be referred to in an enactment or other instrument as “private registered providers of social housing”, and
(b)
are referred to in this Part as “private registered providers”.