# The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, Article 5: Power of housing trusts to hold land


For the purpose of constructing, improving or repairing, or facilitating or encouraging the construction, improvement or repair of, housing accommodation, a housing trust—
(a) may acquire and dispose of any estate in land; and
(b) if it is not already a body corporate shall, for the purpose of holding any estate in land acquired under this Article, and of suing and being sued in respect thereof, be deemed to be a body corporate with perpetual succession, and consequently for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of such an estate shall have a common seal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1992/1725/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-5
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