Housing Associations Act 1985

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75 [F1General functions]E+W

(1)The [F2Welsh Ministers] [F3have] the following general functions—

[F4(a)to facilitate the proper performance of the functions of registered social landlords;

(b)to maintain a register of social landlords and to exercise supervision and control over such persons;

(c)to promote and assist the development of self-build societies (other than registered social landlords) and to facilitate the proper performance of the functions, and to publicise the aims and principles, of such societies;]

(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

(e)to undertake, to such extent as the [F6Welsh Ministers consider] necessary, the provision (by construction, acquisition, conversion, improvement or otherwise) of dwellings for letting or for sale and of hostels, and the management of dwellings or hostels so provided.

F7(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F8(1A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F8(1B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2)The [F9Welsh Ministers] shall exercise [F10their] general functions subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Act [F11and Part I of the Housing Act 1996].

(3)Subsection (1) is without prejudice to specific functions conferred on the [F12Welsh Ministers] by or under this Act [F13or Part I of the Housing Act 1996].

(4)The [F14Welsh Ministers] may do such things and enter into such transactions as are incidental to or conducive to the exercise of any of [F15their] functions, general or specific, under this Act [F13or Part I of the Housing Act 1996].

F16(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F17(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1S. 75 heading substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(8) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

F2Words in s. 75(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(a) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

F3Word in s. 75(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(b) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

F4S. 75(1)(a)-(c) substituted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 55(1), Sch. 3 para. 5; S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (with transitional provisions and savings in Sch.)

F5Ss. 41–51, 75(1)(d) repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(2), Sch. 18

F6Words in s. 75(1)(e) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(c) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

F7S. 75(1)(f) repealed (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), s. 73, Sch. 2 para. 5(2), Sch. 4; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1

F8S. 75(1A)(1B) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 14; S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(x)

F9Words in s. 75(2)-(4) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(4) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)