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Local Government and Housing Act 1989

An Act to make provision with respect to the members, officers and otherstaff and the procedure of local authorities; to amend Part III of the LocalGovernment Act 1974 and Part II of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 and to provide for a national code of local government conduct; to makefurther provision about the finances and expenditure of local authorities(including provision with respect to housing subsidies) and about companiesin which local authorities have interests; to make provision for and inconnection with renewal areas, grants towards the cost of improvement andrepair of housing accommodation and the carrying out of works of maintenance,repair and improvement; to amend the Housing Act 1985 and Part III of theLocal Government Finance Act 1982; to make amendments of and consequentialupon Parts I, II and IV of the Housing Act 1988; to amend the Local GovernmentFinance Act 1988 and the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987and certain enactments relating, as respects Scotland, to rating andvaluation, and to provide for the making of grants; to make provision withrespect to the imposition of charges by local authorities; to make furtherprovision about certain existing grants and about financial assistance to andplanning by local authorities in respect of emergencies; to amend sections 102and 211 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973; to amend the Local LandCharges Act 1975; to enable local authorities in Wales to be known solely byWelsh language names; to provide for the transfer of new town housing stock;to amend certain of the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 relatingto a secure tenant’s right to purchase his house; to amend section 47 of theRace Relations Act 1976; to confer certain powers on the Housing Corporation,Housing for Wales and Scottish Homes; to make provision about security oftenure for certain tenants under long tenancies; to provide for the making ofgrants and giving of guarantees in respect of certain activities carried onin relation to the construction industry; to provide for the repeal of certainenactments relating to improvement notices, town development and educationsupport grants; to make, as respects Scotland, further provision in relationto the phasing of progression to registered rent for houses let by housingassociations or Scottish Homes and in relation to the circumstances in whichrent increases under assured tenancies may be secured; and for connectedpurposes.

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Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 65(2)(b)(ii)

Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

Sch. 2

para. 11

s. 73

art. 2

Sch. 1

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 76A

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Wales Act 2014

s. 24(2)

s. 29(5)(b)

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 87(1A)

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s. 24(5)

s. 29(5)(b)

SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 8 Welsh Language Names for Local Authorities

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Sch. 8 omitted (7.1.1997) by virtue of S.I. 1996/3071, art. 2, Sch. para. 3(11)

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In section 21 (constitution of principal councils in Wales) in subsection(3) after the words “body corporate" there shall be inserted “and,subject to subsection (4) below, shall be known".

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After subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the followingsubsections—

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If and so long as this subsection is in force in relation to a principalcouncil, subsection (3) above shall have effect in relation to that councilas if for the words “The County Council" there were substituted “CyngorSir" or, as the case may be, as if for the words “The DistrictCouncil" there were substituted “Cyngor Dosbarth".
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Subsection (4) above shall come into force in relation to a principalcouncil three months after the day on which, at a specially convened meetingof the council, it is resolved by a two-thirds majority of the members presentand voting that the Welsh language form of the council’s description shall beused; and that subsection shall cease to be in force in relation to aprincipal council three months after the day on which, at a specially convenedmeeting of the council, it is resolved by a similar majority that the Welshlanguage form of the council’s description shall cease to be used.