SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 18Miscellaneous provisions
Part IHousing management
Payments to encourage local housing authority tenants to move to other accommodation
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1
A local housing authority may make payments to or for the benefit of a tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house within its Housing Revenue Account with a view to assisting or encouraging that person to move to qualifying accommodation.
2
In sub-paragraph (1) “qualifying accommodation” means a dwelling-house made available to the person concerned as tenant or licensee by any of the following—
a
the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority; or
b
a registered social landlord.
3
The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to a dwelling-house being within the Housing Revenue Account of a local housing authority is to a dwelling-house to which section 74(1) of the [1989 c. 42.] Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies.
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In this paragraph—
“dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the [1985 c. 68.] Housing Act 1985; and
“tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.