Version Superseded: 01/04/2010
Point in time view as at 18/01/2005. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Housing Act 1985, Section 24 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)A local housing authority may make such reasonable charges as they may determine for the tenancy or occupation of their houses.
(2)The authority shall from time to time review rents and make such changes, either of rents generally or of particular rents, as circumstances may require.
[F1(3)In exercising their functions under this section, a local housing authority [F2in Wales] shall have regard in particular to the principle that the rents of houses of any class or description should bear broadly the same proportion to private sector rents as the rents of houses of any other class or description.
(4)In subsection (3) “private sector rents”, in relation to houses of any class or description, means the rents which would be recoverable if they were let on assured tenancies within the meaning of the Housing Act 1988 by a person other than the authority.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 24(3) inserted (18.11.2003) by Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), ss. 92(1), 128(3); S.I. 2003/2938, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 8, Sch.)
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