{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-75.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "section/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "General functions",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers have the following general functions—\n(a) to facilitate the proper performance of the functions of registered social landlords;\n(b) to maintain a register of social landlords and to exercise supervision and control over such persons;\n(c) to promote and assist the development of self-build societies (other than registered social landlords) and to facilitate the proper performance of the functions, and to publicise the aims and principles, of such societies;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) to undertake, to such extent as the Welsh Ministers consider necessary, the provision (by construction, acquisition, conversion, improvement or otherwise) of dwellings for letting or for sale and of hostels, and the management of dwellings or hostels so provided.\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The Welsh Ministers shall exercise their general functions subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Act and Part I of the Housing Act 1996.\n(3) Subsection (1) is without prejudice to specific functions conferred on the Welsh Ministers by or under this Act or Part I of the Housing Act 1996.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may do such things and enter into such transactions as are incidental to or conducive to the exercise of any of their functions, general or specific, under this Act or Part I of the Housing Act 1996.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(a) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 75(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(b) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 75(1)(a)-(c) substituted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 55(1), Sch. 3 para. 5; S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (with transitional provisions and savings in Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 41–51, 75(1)(d) repealed by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(2), Sch. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(1)(e) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(2)(c) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 75(1)(f) repealed (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), s. 73, Sch. 2 para. 5(2), Sch. 4; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 75(1A)(1B) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 14; S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(2)-(4) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(4) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 75(2) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(5) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(2) inserted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(26)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(2)-(4) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(4) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(3)(4) inserted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(26)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 75(2)-(4) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(4) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in s. 75(4) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(6) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "S. 75(5) repealed (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 34, s. 9(2), Sch. 3 (with s. 10(5)), S.I. 2001/566, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "S. 75(6) repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(7), Sch. 4 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "S. 75 heading substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/866), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 48(8) (with art. 6, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 75: transfer of functions (1.12.2008) by The Transfer of Housing Corporation Functions (Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2839), arts. 1(1), 2 (see S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(b))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/75",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:44.997710+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."
}