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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/42/section/171/1992-10-16

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

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Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

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para. 11

s. 73

art. 2

Sch. 1

Local Government and Housing Act 1989

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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)

Part IX Miscellaneous and General

Miscellaneous housing provisions

171 Winding up of home purchase assistance scheme.

1

The Secretary of State may by order make provision for the purpose of bringing to an end the scheme for assistance for first-time buyers which—

a

as respects England and Wales, is contained in sections 445 to 450 of the M1Housing Act 1985, and

b

as respects Scotland, is contained in sections 222 to 227 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987,

and in the following provisions of this section, the enactments specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above together with any orders and directions made under those enactments are referred to as “the assistance legislation”.

2

Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1) above, an order under that subsection—

a

may specify a date or dates with effect from which account will no longer be taken under the assistance legislation of matters specified in the order;

b

may vary the terms of advances to lending institutions so as to commute what would otherwise be a number of payments or repayments to or by such an institution into a single payment or a smaller number of payments of such amount and payable at such time or times as may be determined in accordance with the order; and

c

may provide for the amendment or repeal, in whole or in part, of theassistance legislation with effect from such date or dates and subject to such transitional provisions as may be specified in the order.

3

The following powers, namely,—

a

the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by subsection (3) ofsection 446 of the Housing Act 1985 and subsection (3) of section 223 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 to relax or modify the conditions in subsection (2) of each of those sections respectively (conditions qualifying a purchaser for assistance), and

b

any power to make an order under any provision of the assistance legislation,

may be so exercised as to make provision for the purpose referred to in subsection (1) above.

4

The power to make an order under subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.