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(1)The HCA may, in such events as it may determine, exercise the powers conferred by subsections (2) to (4) in relation to a person who has received social housing assistance.
(2)The HCA may reduce any grant payable by it or restrict any other social housing assistance due from it.
(3)The HCA may suspend or cancel any instalment of any grant payable by it or any aspect of any other social housing assistance due from it.
(4)The HCA may direct the recipient of any social housing assistance given by way of grant to—
(a)apply or appropriate for such purposes of the recipient as the HCA may specify, or
(b)pay to the HCA,
such amount as the HCA may specify.
(5)The HCA may not specify an amount which exceeds the recoverable amount.
(6)The recoverable amount is—
(a)the total amount of grant received by the person to whom the direction is given, less
(b)the total of any amounts applied, appropriated or paid in accordance with any previous directions given in respect of that grant under subsection (4),
and for the purposes of paragraph (b) any amounts provided for by virtue of section 33(1) are to be ignored.
(7)Subsection (5) is without prejudice to the power of the HCA under section 33(1).
(8)In exercising its powers under subsections (2) to (4) the HCA must act in accordance with such principles as it has determined.
(9)A person who has received social housing assistance must notify the HCA if an event of a kind determined by the HCA under subsection (1) occurs after the assistance has been given.
(10)Such a person must, if required by notice of the HCA, supply the HCA with such particulars of, and information relating to, the event as are specified in the notice.
[F1(10A)The HCA must notify the Regulator of Social Housing at least 14 days before exercising, in relation to a registered provider of social housing, any of the powers conferred by subsections (2) to (4).]
F2(11). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(12)Events determined by the HCA under subsection (1), and principles determined by the HCA under subsection (8), must be determined on or before the time the HCA gives the social housing assistance concerned unless they are determined subsequently with the agreement of the recipient of the assistance.
(13)In this Part—
“social housing” has the same meaning as in Part 2,
“social housing assistance” means financial assistance given under section 19 on condition that the recipient provides social housing (whether by itself or as part of a wider project);
and, for the purposes of this Part, a person provides social housing if (and only if) the person acquires, constructs, converts, improves or repairs any housing or other land for use as social housing or ensures such acquisition, construction, conversion, improvement or repair by another.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 32(10A) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1040), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 6 (with Pt. 4)
F2S. 32(11) repealed (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 16 para. 5, Sch. 25 Pt. 26; S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(i)(j) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 31-36 applied (with modifications) by 1999 c. 29, s. 333ZE(1)(2) (as inserted (1.4.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss. 187(3), 240(2); S.I. 2012/628, art. 6(e) (with arts. 9 11 14 15 17))
Commencement Information
I1S. 32 in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/803, art. 2(1)(a)
I2S. 32 in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/862, art. 2 (with Sch.)
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