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PART XVE+W GRANTS FOR WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR AND CONVERSION

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. XV (ss. 460–526) modified by S.I. 1986/148, art. 10(4)(b)

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Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 460–520 repealed (1.7.1990) and superseded by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), ss. 101(5), 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. II (subject to a saving in S.I. 1990/1274, art. 3, Sch. para. 2 in relation to certain applications approved before 1.7.1990) and subject to amendment made by S.I. 1994/2825, reg. 54

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MiscellaneousE+W

523 Assistance for provision of separate service pipe for water supply.E+W

(1)The local housing authority may, if they think fit, give assistance in respect of the provision of a separate service pipe for a house which has a piped supply of water from a water main but no separate service pipe.

(2)The assistance shall be by way of a grant in respect of all or part of the expenses incurred in the provision of the separate service pipe.

(3)The reference in subsection (2) to the expenses incurred in the provision of the separate service pipe includes, in a case where all or part of the works are carried out by . . . F3 water undertakers (whether in exercise of default powers or otherwise), sums payable to the undertakers by the owner of the house, or any other person, for carrying out the works.

[F4524 Contributions under superseded enactments.E+W

Schedule 19 has effect with respect to contributions payable under superseded enactments.]

[F5 General supplementary provisionsE+W

Textual Amendments

525 Minor definitions.E+W

In this Part—

(a)persons whose employment or latest employment is or was employment in agriculture or in an industry mainly dependent on agriculture, and

(b)the dependents of those persons;

and for this purpose “ agriculture ” includes dairy-farming and poultry-farming and the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land, or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens or nursery grounds;

(a)is for the time being entitled to receive from a lessee of the dwelling (or would be so entitled if the dwelling were let) a rent of not less than two-thirds of the net annual value of the dwelling; and

(b)is not himself liable as lessee of the dwelling, or of property which includes the dwelling, to pay such a rent to a superior landlord.]

Textual Amendments

F6Words in s. 525 substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 44 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)

[F7526 Index of defined expressions: Part XVE+W

The following Table shows provisions defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in this part (other than provisions defining or explaining an expression in the same section):—

agricultural populationsection 525
applicantsection 515(1)
appropriate percentagesection 509
certificate of availability for lettingsection 464(5)
certificate of owner-occupationsection 464(3), (4)
certified datesection 499(3)
charitysection 622
charity trusteessection 525
[F8common parts (for the purposes of common parts grant)][F8section 498A(2)(b)]
[F8common parts grant][F8section 460 and 498A]
co-operative housing associationsection 5(2)
district (of a local housing authority)section 2(1)
dwellingsection 525
dwelling for a disabled occupantsection 518
eligible expensesections 472, 481, 489 and [F9,497 and 498F]
fit for human habitationsection 604
[F10flat (for the purposes of common parts grant)][F10section 498A(2)(a)]
general improvement areasection 253
grant (without more)section 460(1)
house in multiple occupationsection 525
housing action areasection 239
housing associationsection 5(1)
housing authoritysection 4(a)
improvementsection 518(3) and 525
improvement grantsections 460 and 467
initial periodsection 499(2)
intermediate grantsections 460 and 474
lessee and letsection 621
local housing authoritysection 1, 2(2)
[F11long tenancy][F11section 115]
member of familysection 520
ownersection 525
protected occupancysection 622
protected tenancysection 622
reasonable repairsection 519
registered and unregistered (in relation to a housing association)section 5(4)
relevant workssection 461(2)
repairs grantsections 460 and 491
restricted contractsection 622
secure tenancysection 79
special grantsection 460 and 483
standard amenitysection 508(1)
statutory tenancysection 622
tenancy and tenantsection 621]