Housing Act 1969

59Orders applying management code

(1)Subsection (2) of section 12 of the [1961 c. 65.] Housing Act 1961 (which requires a local authority to serve notice of intention to make an order applying the management code to a house) shall cease to have effect.

(2)In subsection (4) of that section (right of appeal) for the words from " within " to " served " there shall be substituted the words " within twenty-one days from the service or such longer period as the local authority may in writing allow ".

(3)In subsection (5) of that section (improvements between service of the notice and making of the order) for the words from " at the time when " to " time of the making of the order " there shall be substituted the words " at the time of the making of the order as well as at the time the appeal was instituted ".