Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53)

Part I U.K. Grants, &c. for renewal of private sector housing

Chapter I U.K. The main grants

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I Ch. I (ss. 1-59) excluded (17.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2890, reg. 3(1)

C2 Pt. I Ch. I modified (temp.) (E.) (coming into force in accordance with regs. 1(2)-(4), 3 of the amending S.I.) by The Disabled Peoples Right to Control (Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2862), reg. 23, Sch. 2 (with reg. 22)

Supplementary provisions E+W

57 Power of local housing authority to carry out works which would attract grant. E+W

(1) A local housing authority may by agreement with a person having the requisite interest execute at his expense—

(a) any works towards the cost of which a grant under this Chapter is payable or might be paid on an application duly made and approved, and

(b) any further works which it is in their opinion necessary or desirable to execute together with the works mentioned in paragraph (a).

[F1 (2) In subsection (1), the reference to a person having the requisite interest is a reference to—

(a) in the case of a qualifying houseboat or [F2 caravan], the person who is—

(i) entitled to possession of the premises at which the qualifying houseboat is moored or the [F3 land] on which the [F2 caravan] is stationed, or

(ii) entitled to dispose of the qualifying houseboat or [F2 caravan], or

(b) in any other case, the person who has an owner’s interest.]

(3) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 57(2) substituted (19.7.2003) by The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1860), arts. 1(3), 11(1), Sch. 3 para. 24(a) (with art. 11(2))

F2 Word in s. 57(2)(a) substituted (18.1.2005) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 224(6)(a), 270(3)(a) (with s. 224(9))

F3 Word in s. 57(2)(a)(i) substituted (18.1.2005) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 224(6)(b), 270(3)(a) (with s. 224(9))

F4 S. 57(3) repealed (19.7.2003) by The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1860), arts. 1(3), 11(1), 15, Sch. 3 para. 24(b), Sch. 6 (with art. 11(2))