{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-permissible-additional-purposes-england-and-wales-order-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-permissible-additional-purposes-england-and-wales-order-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2895",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Associations (Permissible Additional Purposes) (England and Wales) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-associations-permissible-additional-purposes-england-and-wales-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends, with respect to England and Wales only, section 4 of the Housing Associations Act 1985, which sets out the conditions of eligibility of housing associations for registration under the Act.\nThe amendments enable a housing association to be eligible for registration notwithstanding that the association’s purposes or objects include the provision of certain kinds of financial assistance to enable or assist persons who occupy houses or hostels provided or managed by the association to purchase houses from vendors other than the association or to procure the construction of self-contained accommodation for their occupation on land belonging to others.\nThe amendments also extend the meaning of the expression “disposed of on shared ownership terms” for the purposes of that section. The effect of the extension is to enable a housing association to be eligible for registration notwithstanding that its purposes or objects include that of making certain kinds of disposal of houses where the association obtains a mortgagee’s interest, the value of which is calculated by reference to a percentage of the value of the house from time to time.\nThe amendments also make provision with respect to the priority of mortgages securing the liability of persons to make payments required under the arrangements in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2895/note",
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  "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."
}