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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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1991-02-01

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

76B

Wales Act 2014

s. 24(2)

s. 29(5)(b)

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

s. 87(1A)

Wales Act 2014

s. 24(5)

s. 29(5)(b)

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

Sch. 10 para. 5(4)(a)(b) and words

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

Sch. 9

para. 8(a)

s. 124(3)

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

Sch. 10

para. 5(4A)

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

Sch. 9

para. 8(b)

s. 124(3)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Amendments of Parts VI, IX, XI, XVII and XVIII of the Housing Act 1985

Part I Amendments of Part VI

1

In section 189 (repair notice in respect of unfit house), in subsection (1), after the words “dwelling-house”, in the first two places where they occur, there shall be inserted “ or house in multiple occupation ” and for the words from “unless they are satisfied” onwards there shall be substituted “ if they are satisfied, in accordance with section 604A, that serving a notice under this subsection is the most satisfactory course of action ”.

2

In subsection (1A) of that section—

a

for the words “a dwelling-house which is a flat” there shall be substituted “ either a dwelling-house which is a flat or a flat in multiple occupation ”;

b

for the words from “by reason” to “outside the flat” there shall be substituted “ by virtue of section 604(2) ”; and

c

for the words from “that part of the building” onwards there shall be substituted “ the part of the building in question if they are satisfied, in accordance with section 604A, that serving a notice under this subsection is the most satisfactory course of action ”.

3

After subsection (1A) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

1B
In the case of a house in multiple occupation, a repair notice may be served on the person managing the house instead of on the person having control; and where a notice is so served, then, subject to section 191, the person managing the house shall be regarded as the person having control of it for the purposes of the provisions of this Part following that section.

4

In subsection (2) of that section, in paragraph (a) after the words “works specified in the notice” there shall be inserted “ (which may be works of repair or improvement or both) ” and for the words “seventh day after the notice becomes operative” there shall be substituted “ twenty-eighth day after the notice is served ”, and in paragraph (b) after the words “dwelling-house” there shall be inserted “ or, as the case may be, house in multiple occupation ”.

5

In subsection (3) of that section—

a

after the words “serving the notice” there shall be inserted “ (a) ”;

b

after the words “building concerned” there shall be inserted

or
b
on the person having control of or, as the case may be, on the person managing the house in multiple occupation which is concerned

c

in the words following paragraph (b), as set out above, for the words “or part of the building” there shall be substituted “ part of the building or house ”.

6

After subsection (5) there shall be added the following subsection—

6
This section has effect subject to the provisions of section 190A.