Paragraph 17

Section 118 (de-registration: compulsory) is amended as follows.

In subsection (1), for “body” substitute “private registered provider”.

After subsection (3) insert—

“(4)

The regulator shall remove a local authority from the register if the regulator becomes aware that the authority—

(a)

is no longer a provider of social housing, or

(b)

no longer intends to become a provider of social housing (in the case of an authority which intended to become one but did not in fact do so).”