# Housing Act 1996, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W

(1) 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.
(2) 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—
(a) the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority;
(aa) a private registered provider of social housing;
or
(b) a registered social landlord.
(3) 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 Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies.
(4) In this paragraph—
“dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the Housing Act 1985; and
“tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/schedule/18/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/schedule-18/paragraph-2
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