Paragraph 2
England and Wales
A local housing authority may make payments to or for the benefit of a tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house within its Housing Revenue Account with a view to assisting or encouraging that person to move to qualifying accommodation.
In sub-paragraph (1) “qualifying accommodation” means a dwelling-house made available to the person concerned as tenant or licensee by any of the following—
the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority;
a private registered provider of social housing;
or
a registered social landlord.
The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to a dwelling-house being within the Housing Revenue Account of a local housing authority is to a dwelling-house to which section 74(1) of the M1Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies.
In this paragraph—
“dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the M2Housing Act 1985; and
“tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. 18 para. 2(2)(aa) inserted (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 107 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)
Marginal citations
- M1
- M2