Housing Act 1996

[F16AVoluntary undertakingsE+W

(1)A registered social landlord may give the Welsh Ministers an undertaking in respect of any matter concerning housing.

(2)The Welsh Ministers may prescribe a procedure to be followed in giving an undertaking.

(3)The Welsh Ministers must have regard to any undertaking offered or given in exercising a regulatory or enforcement power.

(4)The Welsh Ministers may base a decision about whether to exercise a regulatory or enforcement power wholly or partly on the extent to which an undertaking has been honoured.

(5)In this section, “regulatory or enforcement power” means a power exercisable under any of the following provisions—

  • section 35,

  • section 37,

  • section 38,

  • Chapter 4A of this Part,

  • paragraphs 4 and 6 to 15H of Part 2 of Schedule 1,

  • Part 3A of Schedule 1,

  • Part 4 of Schedule 1.

(6)This section does not apply in relation to a registered social landlord's provision of housing in England.]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 6A and cross-heading inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), ss. 41, 90(2); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(f)