24 Rents.E+W
(1)A local housing authority may make such reasonable charges as they may determine for the tenancy or occupation of their houses.
(2)The authority shall from time to time review rents and make such changes, either of rents generally or of particular rents, as circumstances may require.
[F1(3)In exercising their functions under this section, a local housing authority [F2in Wales] shall have regard in particular to the principle that the rents of houses of any class or description should bear broadly the same proportion to private sector rents as the rents of houses of any other class or description.
(4) In subsection (3) “ private sector rents ”, in relation to houses of any class or description, means the rents which would be recoverable if they were let on assured tenancies within the meaning of the Housing Act 1988 by a person other than the authority. ]
[F3(5)In exercising their functions under this section, a local housing authority in England shall have regard in particular to any relevant standards set for them under section 193 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 24(3)(4) added by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 162
F2Words in s. 24(3) inserted (18.11.2003) by Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), ss. 92(1), 128(3); S.I. 2003/2938, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 8, Sch.)