{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/69",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Associations Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-act-1985",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Disposal of land.",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may dispose of land in respect of which they have not exercised their powers under section 89(1) (provision or improvement of dwellings or hostels) and on which they have not carried out any such development as is mentioned in section 89(5) (ancillary development) to a registered social landlord or an unregistered self-build society ....\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may dispose of land on which dwellings or hostels have been provided or improved in exercise of their powers under section 89 to—\na registered social landlord,\na local authority,\na new town corporation, or\nScottish Homes;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may sell or lease individual dwellings to persons for those persons to occupy.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may dispose of a building or land intended for use for commercial, recreational or other non-domestic purposes in respect of which development has been carried out by virtue of section 89.\n(5) The Welsh Ministers may dispose of land which is not required for the purposes for which it was acquired.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(c) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 42(2) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) omitted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(d) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(3)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(3)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2) substituted (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 15(33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2) substituted (1.11.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 140, Sch. 16 para. 42(3) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2) omitted (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by virtue of The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(3)(c), Sch. 2 (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S.90(3)-(5) substituted for s. 90(3)-(6) (E.W.) (1.4.2009) by The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(4) (with Sch. 1 para. 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/69/section/90",
    "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."
}