# Housing Associations Act 1985, Section 75: General functions

Extent: E+W

(1) The Welsh Ministers have the following general functions—
(a) to facilitate the proper performance of the functions of registered social landlords;
(b) to maintain a register of social landlords and to exercise supervision and control over such persons;
(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;
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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.
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(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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.
(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.
(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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/75 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-75
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