{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-422",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-422.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/422",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "422",
  "heading": "Calculation of housing subsidy for local housing authorities.",
  "text": "(1) The amount of the housing subsidy payable to a development corporation for a year (the year of account) shall be calculated from the amounts which, in accordance with sections 423 to 425, are the corporation’s—\n(a) base amount (BA),\n(b) housing costs differential (HCD), and\n(c) local contribution differential (LCD),\nfor the year, and shall be so calculated by using the formula BA+HCD-LCD.\n(2) If the amount so calculated is nil or a negative amount, no housing subsidy is payable to the corporation for that year.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 paras. 77(3), 78(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 422(1) substituted (1.12.2008) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3002), art. 4, Sch. 1 para. 12 (with Sch. 2); S.I. 2008/3068, arts. 1(2), 2(1)(b) (with arts. 6-13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 194, Sch. 11 paras. 77(3), 78(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 421–427A: by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 79(3) it is provided that sections 421 to 427A of the Housing Act 1985 (which are superseded, in their application to local housing authorities, by that section 79 and sections 80 and 86 of that 1989 Act) shall cease to apply in relation to such authorities"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/422",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}