Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 73
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made
16th January 1997
Laid before Parliament
22nd January 1997
Coming into force
12th February 1997
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 12th February 1997.
Amendment
2. The Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) Regulations 1994(3) are amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 3(1), after “secure tenants” insert “and introductory tenants”;
(b)in regulation 3(2)
(i)for “dwelling-houses let to secure tenants” substitute, “relevant dwelling-houses”; and
(ii)at the end add—
“In this paragraph “a relevant dwelling-house” means a dwelling-house let to a secure tenant or to an introductory tenant.”.
(c)in regulations 5(1), 5(2)(a), 7(1) and 7(3) after “secure tenant” insert “or intro-ductory tenant”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
14th January 1997
William Hague
Secretary of State for Wales
16th January 1997
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply the Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) Regulations 1994 to introductory tenants of such authorities.
1985 c. 68; section 96 was substituted by section 121 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28).