Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

Valid from 23/03/2015

Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)U.K.

22U.K.In the Housing Act 1996, sections 153A to 158 and Schedule 15 (injunctions against housing-related anti-social behaviour) are repealed.

23U.K.In section 218A of that Act (anti-social behaviour: landlords' policies and procedures), for subsections (8) and (8A) there is substituted—

(8)Anti-social behaviour is—

(a)conduct that is capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to some person (who need not be a particular identified person) and that directly or indirectly relates to or affects the landlord's housing management functions, or

(b)conduct that consists of or involves using or threatening to use housing accommodation owned or managed by the landlord for an unlawful purpose.