# Housing Act 1974, Paragraph 40


(1) In section 39 of the Act of 1973 (duty to rehouse residential occupiers) in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) after the words “the carrying out of there shall be inserted the words “any improvement to a house or building on the land of or . . . .
(2) In subsection (3) of that section after the word “demolition there shall be added the words “or improvement.
(3) In subsection (6) of that section after the words “such acquisition there shall be inserted the word “improvement, after the words “paragraph (b) of that subsection there shall be inserted the words “or of such an improvement notice as is mentioned in paragraph (d) of that subsection and for the words “or the undertaking was accepted there shall be substituted the words “the undertaking was accepted or the notice was served.
(4) After subsection (6) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(6A) For the purposes of subsection (1) above a person shall not be treated as displaced in consequence of the acceptance of an undertaking, of the carrying out of any improvement to a house or building or of the service of such an improvement notice as is mentioned in paragraph (d) of that subsection unless he is permanently displaced from the residential accommodation in question in consequence of the carrying out of the works specified in the undertaking, the carrying out of the improvement or, as the case may be, the carryong out of the works specified in the notice.”
(5) In subsection (7) of that section for the words “subsection (8) there shall be substituted the words “subsections (8) and (8A).
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(7) In subsection (9) of that section after the word “undertaking there shall be inserted the word “improvement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/44/schedule/13/paragraph/40 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1974/schedule-13/paragraph-40
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