Housing Act 1985

385 General duties of local housing authority when control order is in force. E+W

(1) The local housing authority shall—

(a) exercise the powers conferred on them by a control order so as to maintain proper standards of management in the house,

(b) take such action as is needed to remedy all the matters which they would have considered it necessary to remedy by the taking of action under any other provision of this Act if they had not made a control order, and

(c) make reasonable provision for insurance of the premises subject to the control order against destruction or damage by fire or other cause.

(2) The reference in subsection (1)(c) to the premises subject to the control order includes any part of the premises excluded from the provisions of the order under section 380 (modification of order where proprietor resides in part of the house).

(3) Premiums paid for the insurance of the premises shall be treated for the purposes of this Part as expenditure incurred by the authority in respect of the premises.