6. The repeal of section 121 (rent officers: additional functions relating to housing benefit etc) of the Housing Act 1988(1) contained in Part VI of Schedule 19 to the Act shall not have effect in so far as that section has effect for the purposes of section 31 (determination of amount of grant in case of landlord’s application) of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996(2).
1988 c. 50. Subsection (1) of section 121 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), section 110(3) and further amended by the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraph 13. Subsections (4) to (6) were repealed, and subsection (7) was substituted, by the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 4), Schedule 1 and Schedule 2, paragraph 4 respectively.