# Housing Act 1961, Section 26: Power to substitute closing order for demolition order to enable a house to be used otherwise than for human habitation


(1) If an owner of a house in respect of which a demolition order has become operative or any other person who has an interest in the house submits proposals to the local authority for the use of the house for a purpose other than human habitation, the local authority may, if they think fit so to do, determine the demolition order and make a closing order as respects the house.
(2) Where a local authority determine a demolition order and make a closing order under this section, they shall serve notice that the demolition order has been determined and a copy of the closing order on every person on whom they would be required by subsection (1) of section sixteen of the principal Act to serve a notice issued by them under that subsection.
(3) In subsection (5) of section twenty-seven and in section twenty-eight of the principal Act (which relate respectively to the recovery of possession of premises subject to a closing order made under subsection (1) of section seventeen of that Act and to the substitution of a demolition order for a closing order so made) references to a closing order made under the said subsection (1) shall include references to a closing order made under this section.
(4) This section shall be construed as one with Part II of the principal Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/65/section/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1961/section-26
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