Housing Act 1985

512 Payment of grants: conditions as to completion of works.

(1) The payment of a grant, or part of a grant, is conditional upon the works or the corresponding part being executed to the satisfaction of the local housing authority.

(2) In approving an application for a grant the authority may require as a condition of paying the grant that the relevant works are carried out within such time, not being less than twelve months, as the authority may specify or such further time as they may allow.

(3) In particular, where the authority are satisfied that the relevant works cannot or could not have been carried out without the carrying out of additional works, they may allow further time as the time within which the relevant works and the additional works are to be carried out.

(4) If an instalment of a grant is paid before the completion of the works and the works are not completed within—

(a) the time specified by the authority under subsection (2) or such further time as they may allow, or

(b) if no time was so specified, twelve months from the date on which the instalment is paid or such further time as the authority may allow,

the authority may demand the repayment forthwith by the applicant or his personal representatives of that instalment, and any further sums paid by the authority, together with interest at such reasonable rate as the authority may determine from the date of payment until repayment.