43 Registration areas and rent officers.S
(1)The registration areas for the purposes of this Part of this Act shall be the [F1areas of local authorities].
(2)The Secretary of State may, after consultation with the local authority or local authorities concerned, make directions—
(a)as to the groupings of registration areas or parts thereof, or
(b)deeming any part of a registration area to be a separate registration area,
and any reference in this Part of this Act to a registration area shall include a reference to a grouping of registration areas or parts thereof and any area deemed to be a separate registration area by virtue of this subsection.
(3)[F2Subject to section 43A below,]The Secretary of State shall for every registration area, after consultation with the local authority or local authorities for that area, appoint such number of rent officers for the area as he may think fit.
(4)Where the Secretary of State made a direction under subsection (2) above, or an appointment under subsection (3) above, which came into force on 16th May 1975, he shall be deemed to have consulted the local authority or local authorities concerned for the purposes of the said subsection (2) or (3) if he consulted either the existing or the new local authority or local authorities before that date.
(5)The Secretary of State may pay to rent officers such remuneration and allowances as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine, defray their expenses to such amount as he may with the like approval determine, and may provide them with such accommodation and services as they may require.
(6)The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, make such arrangements to provide for the superannuation of rent officers as he may consider appropriate; and where such arrangements in respect of a rent officer are made with a local authority the rent officer shall for the purposes of regulations under section 7 of the M1Superannuation Act 1972 and of any local Act scheme within the meaning of section 8 of that Act be deemed to be an officer of that local authority.
(7)References in this Act to the rent officer are references to any rent officer appointed for any area under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 43(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 137(3); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)
F2Words in s. 43(3) inserted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 76, 82(2), Sch. 16 para. 5
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