- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (01/10/1994)
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Version Superseded: 01/10/1996
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(1)The [F1Corporation] may appoint a person (not a person who is, or at any time has been, a member of [F2staff of any of the Corporations]) to conduct an inquiry into the affairs of a registered housing association [F3and, if the appointed person considers it necessary for the purposes of the inquiry, he may also inquire into the business of any other body which, at a time which the appointed person considers material, is or was a subsidiary or associate of the association concerned].
(2)The appointed person may by notice in writing served on—
(a)the association concerned, or
(b)any person who is, or has been, an officer, agent or member of the association [F4or
(c)any person who is, or has been, an officer, agent or member of a subsidiary or associate of the association; or
(d)any other person whom the appointed person has reason to believe is or may be in possession of information of relevance to the inquiry],
require the association or person to produce to him such books, accounts and other documents relating to [F5the business of the association or any other such body as is referred to in subsection (1)] and to give him such other information so relating, as he considers necessary for the purposes of the inquiry.
(3)An association or other person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a notice under subsection (2) commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
[F6(3A)Where, by virtue of subsection (2), any books, accounts or other documents are produced to the appointed person, he may take copies of or make extracts from them.
(3B)The appointed person may, if he thinks fit during the course of the inquiry, make one or more interim reports to the Corporation on such matters as appear to him to be appropriate.]
(4)On completion of the inquiry the appointed person shall make a report to the Corporation on such matters and in such form as the Corporation may specify.
(5)In this section “agent” includes banker, solicitor and auditor; but nothing in this section requires the disclosure—
(a)by a solicitor, of a privileged communication made to him in his capacity as solicitor, or
(b)by a housing association’s banker, of information as to the affairs of any of their other customers.
[F7(6)In this section, in relation to a housing association, “subsidiary” means a company with respect to which one of the following conditions is fulfilled,—
(a)the association is a member of the company and controls the composition of the board of directors; or
(b)the association holds more than half in nominal value of the company’s equity share capital; or
(c)the company is a subsidiary, within the meaning of the Companies Act 1985 or the Friendly and Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1968, of another company which, by virtue of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), is itself a subsidiary of the housing association;
and, in the case of a housing association which is a body of trustees, the reference in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) to the association is a reference to the trustees acting as such and any reference in subsection (7) to the association shall be construed accordingly.
(7)For the purposes of subsection (6)(a), the composition of a company’s board of directors shall be deemed to be controlled by a housing association if, but only if, the association, by the exercise of some power exercisable by the association without the consent or concurrence of any other person, can appoint or remove the holders of all or a majority of the directorships.
(8)In this section, in relation to a housing association, “associate” means—
(a)any body of which the association is a subsidiary; and
(b)any other subsidiary of such a body,
and in this subsection “subsidiary” has the same meaning as in the Companies Act 1985 or the Friendly and Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1968 or, in the case of a body which is itself a housing association, has the meaning assigned by subsection (6).
(9)In relation to a company which is an industrial and provident society,—
(a)any reference in subsection (6)(a) or subsection (7) to the board of directors is a reference to the committee of management of the society; and
(b)the reference in subsection (7) to the holders of all or a majority of the directorships is a reference to all or a majority of the members of the committee or, if the housing association is itself a member of the committee, such number as together with the association would constitute a majority.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 2
F2Words substituted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 19(1)
F3Words added by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 19(1)
F4 “or” and s. 28(2)(c)(d) added by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 19(2)
F5Words substituted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 59(2)(3)(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 19(2)
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