79Minor amendments
(1)In section 355(1) of the [1985 c. 68.] Housing Act 1985 (effect of direction limiting number of occupants) for the words from “the number” to the end substitute “any individual to take up residence in that house or part unless the number of individuals or households then occupying the house or part would not exceed the limit specified in the direction.”.
(2)In section 398 of the Housing Act 1985 for subsection (6) (meaning of “person managing”) substitute—
“(6)“Person managing”—
(a)means the person who, being an owner or lessee of the premises—
(i)receives, directly or through an agent or trustee, rents or other payments from persons who are tenants of parts of the premises, or who are lodgers, or
(ii)would so receive those rents or other payments but for having entered into an arrangement (whether in pursuance of a court order or otherwise) with another person who is not an owner or lessee of the premises by virtue of which that other person receives the rents or other payments, and
(b)includes, where those rents or other payments are received through another person as agent or trustee, that other person.”
(3)In Part IV of Schedule 13 to the Housing Act 1985 (control order followed by compulsory purchase order), in paragraph 22 (application of provisions where compulsory purchase order is made within 28 days of a control order), for “28 days” substitute “eight weeks”.