Section 89 Provision of dwellings or hostels and clearance, management and development of land.

England and Wales

(1)

The F1Welsh Ministers may provide or improve dwellings or hostels on land belonging F2to them.

(2)

The Welsh Ministers may clear land belonging to them and carry out other work on the land to prepare it as a building site or estate, including—

(a)

the laying out and construction of streets or roads and open spaces, and

(b)

the provision of sewerage facilities and supplies of gas, electricity and water.

(3)

The Welsh Ministers may repair, maintain and insure buildings or works on land belonging to them, may generally deal in the proper course of management with such land and buildings or works on it, and may charge for the tenancy or occupation of such land, buildings or works.

(4)

The Welsh Ministers may carry out such operations on, and do such other things in relation to, land belonging to them as appear to them to be conducive to facilitating the provision or improvement of dwellings or hostels on the land—

(a)

by the Welsh Ministers F3themselves, or

(b)

by a F4registered social landlord or unregistered self-build society.

(5)

In the exercise of F5their powers under subsection (4) the Welsh Ministers may carry out any development ancillary to or in connection with the provision of dwellings or hostels, including development which makes provision for buildings or land to be used for commercial, recreational or other non-domestic purposes.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 89 substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 9(2) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)
F2: Words in s. 89 substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 9(3) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)
F3: Word in s. 89(4)(a) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 9(4) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)
F4: Words in s. 89(4)(b) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. para. 15(32)
F5: Word in s. 89(5) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 9(5) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)

Notes on Part III

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. III 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. 45 (with art. 6, Sch. 3)

Modifications

C1: Pt. III (ss. 74-102) excluded (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 7, Sch. 1 para. 15(6); S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3 (subject to transitional provisions and savings in Sch.)

Notes on Relevant Authority’s powers with respect to land and works

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Pt. III (ss. 74-102) substituted (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 28(b) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 5