Part IIE+W+S PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSING

Chapter IE+WENGLAND AND WALES

Housing welfare servicesE+W

127 Accounting for housing welfare services.E+W

Schedule 4 to the M1Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (the keeping of the Housing Revenue Account) shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, as if—

(a)at the end of paragraph (b) of item 2 of Part I (credits to the account) there were inserted the words “ or income in respect of services provided under section 11A of that Act (power to provide welfare services) ”; and

(b)after paragraph 3 of Part III (special cases) there were inserted the following paragraph—

3A Provision of welfare services

(1)This paragraph applies where in any year a local housing authority provide welfare services (within the meaning of section 11A of the M2Housing Act 1985) for persons housed by them in houses or other property within their Housing Revenue Account.

(2)The authority may carry to the credit of the account—

(a)an amount equal to the whole or any part of the income of the authority for the year from charges in respect of the provision of those services;

(b)any sum from some other revenue account of theirs which represents the whole or any part of that income.

(3)The authority may carry to the debit of the account—

(a)an amount equal to the whole or any part of the expenditure of the authority for the year in respect of the provision of those services;

(b)any sum from some other revenue account of theirs which represents the whole or any part of that expenditure.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 127 restricted (12.1.1994) by S.I. 1994/42, art.2, Sch.; and (9.10.1995) by S.I. 1995/2720, art.2, Sch.

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