Housing Act 1985

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Housing Act 1985

1985 CHAPTER 68

X1An Act to consolidate the Housing Acts (except those provisions consolidated in the Housing Associations Act 1985 and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985), and certain related provisions, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.

[30th October 1985]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Editorial Information

X1A Table showing the derivation of the provisions of this consolidation Act will be found at the end of the Act. The Table has no official status.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act amended by Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71, SIF 61), s. 2(3)

Act amended (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/593, reg. 2, Sch. 1

Act amended (24.9.1996) by 1996 c. 52, ss. 221(a), 232(2)

C2By Housing Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(1), Sch. 17 para. 106 it is provided that for the words “Housing Corporation” in each place where they occur there shall be substituted “Corporation”

C5Act applied by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8, SIF 123:1), s. 157(2)

Act applied (1.4.1996 with application in relation only to energy conservation authorities whose areas are in England and 1.4.1997 for those in Wales) by 1995 c. 10, s. 1(2)(a); S.I. 1995/3340, arts. 2(1), 3; S.I. 1996/3181, arts. 2, 3

Act applied (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 217(3)(a); S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (subject to transitional provisions and savings in Sch.)

C6Act: definition of "local authority" applied (30.11.1991) by Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991 (c. 45, SIF 86), ss. 14(1)(a), 23(1), Sch. 5 para.1 (with s. 37(4), Sch. 7); S.I. 1991/2508, art. 2

C7Act restricted (26.7.1993) by 1993 c. 23, s. 4(5), Sch. 1 para. 6(1)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 8); S.I. 1993/1655, art. 2.

C8Act to be construed with 1996 c. 52 Pt. VII (20.1.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 216(1); S.I. 1996/2959, art. 2 (subject to transitional provision in Sch. para. 1)

C9Act: certain functions of a Minister of the Crown transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1(as amended (28.3.2003) by S.I. 2003/940, art. 3)