Section 61 Power of local housing authority to supply furniture to housing association tenants.F1

England and Wales

(1)

A local housing authority may sell, or supply under a hire-purchase agreement, furniture to the occupants of houses provided by a housing association under arrangements made with the authority, and may buy furniture for this purpose.

(2)

In this section “hire-purchase agreement” means a hire-purchase agreement or conditional sale agreement within the meaning of the M1Consumer Credit Act 1974.

(F23)

This section does not apply where the housing association is F3—

(a)

a private registered provider of social housing, or

(b)

a registered social landlord (for which corresponding provision is made by section 22 of the Housing Act 1996).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 61 repealed (S.) (1.11.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 11(4); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. II Table (subject to transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)
F2: S. 61(3) inserted (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(23)
F3: Words in s. 61(3) 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. 43 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

Marginal citations

M1: 1974 c. 39.

Notes on Part II

Modifications

C1: Pt. II (ss. 41–73) excluded (S.) by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 199, 335, Sch. 12 para. 1(7)
C2: Pt. II (ss. 41–73): power to apply certain functions conferred (E.W.) by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 65(2)(b)(4)