# Housing Act 1980, Section 138: Displacement of residential occupiers by housing authority.

Extent: E+W

In section 42(1) of the Land Compensation Act 1973 (which requires an authority acquiring or redeveloping land to indemnify another authority against the cost of rehousing a person displaced by the acquisition or redevelopment but only if the displacing authority is not an authority having functions under Part V of the 1957 Act) after the words “ Housing Act 1957” (in paragraph (b)) there are inserted the words “ or (if they are such an authority) the land is acquired or redeveloped by them otherwise than in the discharge of those functions”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/51/section/138 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1980/section-138
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