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PART 1 REGULATION OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING
Prohibition of letting and management without registration and licence
5.Exceptions to the requirement for a landlord to be registered
6.Requirement for landlords to be licensed to carry out lettings activities
7.Requirement for landlords to be licensed to carry out property management activities
9.Requirement for agents to be licensed to carry out lettings work
11.Requirement for agents to be licensed to carry out property management work
CHAPTER 2 HELP FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS
64.How to secure or help to secure the availability of accommodation
66.Duty to help to prevent an applicant from becoming homeless
68.Interim duty to secure accommodation for homeless applicants in priority need
72.Power to amend or repeal provisions about priority need for accommodation
73.Duty to help to secure accommodation for homeless applicants
75.Duty to secure accommodation for applicants in priority need when the duty in section 73 ends
79.Further circumstances in which the duties to help applicants end
PART 4 STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING
Standards for housing provided by local housing authorities
120.Power to require local housing authority to obtain advisory services
121.Power to require performance of functions by other persons on behalf of authority
122.Power to require performance of functions by Welsh Ministers or nominee
123.Power to direct exercise of other local housing authority functions
PART 6 ALLOWING FULLY MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS TO GRANT ASSURED TENANCIES
PART 8 AMENDMENT OF THE LEASEHOLD REFORM, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT 1993
REGISTER OF PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING
ELIGIBILITY FOR HELP UNDER CHAPTER 2 OF PART 2
MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
3.In section 167 (allocation of housing accommodation in accordance with...
4.In the Part title of Part 7 (homelessness), after “Homelessness”...
5.In subsection (1) of section 179 (duty of local housing...
6.In subsection (1) of section 180 (assistance for voluntary organisations),...
7.In subsection (1) of section 182 (guidance by the Secretary...
8.In subsection (1) of section 183 (application for assistance), after...
9.In subsection (1) of section 187 (provision of information by...
10.In section 193 (duty to persons with priority need who...
11.In section 198 (referral of case to another local housing...
12.In subsection (4) of section 200 (duties to applicant whose...
13.After section 201 (application of referral provisions to cases arising...
14.In subsection (1) of section 213 (co-operation between relevant housing...
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