SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18 Miscellaneous provisions

Part I Housing management

Payments to encourage local housing authority tenants to move to other accommodation

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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.

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;

F1aa

a private registered provider of social housing;

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.