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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Proposals for co-operative management or ownership

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Version Superseded: 01/04/1994

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Point in time view as at 01/02/1991.

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Housing Act 1985, Cross Heading: Proposals for co-operative management or ownership is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 09 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

[F1 Proposals for co-operative management or ownership]E+W

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F1S. 27C and cross-heading inserted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 11

27C Proposals for co-operative management or ownership.E+W

(1)If a qualifying tenants’ association serves written notice on the local housing authority—

(a)proposing that the authority should enter into a management agreement with the association with respect to houses and other land specified in the notice, or

(b)proposing that the association should acquire from the authority houses and other land specified in the notice at a specified price,

the authority shall take the proposal into consideration.

(2)If the authority have not, by the end of the period of six months after service of the notice, accepted the proposal in principle, they shall give the association a written statement of the reasons why they have not done so.

(3)A tenants’s association is a qualifying association for the purposes of this section if—

(a)it is a housing association of which at least half the members are tenants of houses specified in the notice,

(b)it has at least 50 such members or is registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965, and

(c)at least half the tenants of the specified houses are members of the association.

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