Housing Associations Act 1985

35 Housing trusts: power to transfer housing to local housing authority.E+W

(1)A housing trust may—

(a)sell or lease to the local housing authority the houses provided by the trust, or

(b)make over to the authority the management of the houses.

(2)So far as subsection (1) confers power to dispose of land—

[F1(za)it does not apply to private registered providers of social housing (on whom power to dispose of land is conferred by section 171 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008);]

[F2(a)it does not apply to registered social landlords (on whom power to dispose of land is conferred by section 8 of the Housing Act 1996);.]

(b)it has effect subject to section 9 (dispositions requiring consent of [F3Corporation]) where the housing trust is an unregistered housing association and the land is grant-aided land (as defined in Schedule 1); and

(c)it has effect subject to [F4sections 117 to 121 of the Charities Act 2011 (restrictions on dispositions of charity land)] where the housing trust is a charity.