Version Superseded: 01/04/2010
Point in time view as at 05/12/2002.
Housing Act 1996, Cross Heading: Payments to encourage local housing authority tenants to move to other accommodation is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
2(1)A local housing authority may make payments to or for the benefit of a tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house within its Housing Revenue Account with a view to assisting or encouraging that person to move to qualifying accommodation.E+W
(2)In sub-paragraph (1) “qualifying accommodation” means a dwelling-house made available to the person concerned as tenant or licensee by any of the following—
(a)the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority; or
(b)a registered social landlord.
(3)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to a dwelling-house being within the Housing Revenue Account of a local housing authority is to a dwelling-house to which section 74(1) of the M1Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies.
(4)In this paragraph—
“dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the M2Housing Act 1985; and
“tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.
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