Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)

47 (1) Section 52 (recovery etc. of grants) is amended as follows.

(2) For “Relevant Authority”, wherever it appears, substitute “appropriate authority”.

(3) In subsections (1) and (5)(b) for “housing association which is a registered social landlord” substitute “relevant housing association”.

(4) After subsection (9) insert—

“(9A) In this section and sections 53 and 54—

• “the appropriate authority”—

  (a)

  in relation to an English relevant housing association, means the Homes and Communities Agency, and

  (b)

  in relation to a Welsh relevant housing association, means the Welsh Ministers,

• “relevant housing association” means—

  (a)

  a housing association which is a registered provider of social housing (“an English relevant housing association”), and

  (b)

  a housing association which is a registered social landlord (“a Welsh relevant housing association”).

(9B) In this section a reference to registration as a provider of social housing, so far as the context permits, is to be construed as including, in relation to times, circumstances and purposes before the commencement of section 111 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, a reference to registration under—

(a) Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996,

(b) Part 1 of the 1985 Act, or

(c) any corresponding earlier enactment.”