# The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2000, Article 3: Electronic transmission of determinations


In section 87 of the 1989 Act (determinations and directions) after subsection (3), insert the following subsections—
“(4) References in this section to sending to a local housing authority a copy of a determination under this Part include references to using electronic communications for sending a copy of a determination to such address as may for the time being be notified to the Secretary of State by that authority for that purpose.
(5) For the purposes of this section a copy of a determination under this Part is also to be treated as sent to a local housing authority where—
(a) the Secretary of State and that authority have agreed to the authority instead having access to determinations on a web site;
(b) the determination is a determination to which that agreement applies;
(c) the Secretary of State has published the determination on a web site;
(d) that authority is notified, in a manner for the time being agreed for the purpose between that authority and the Secretary of State, of—
(i) the publication of the determination on a web site;
(ii) the address of that web site; and
(iii) the place on that web site where the determination may be accessed, and how it may be accessed.
(6) A local housing authority which is no longer willing to accept electronic communications for the sending of copies of determinations under this Part, may withdraw a notification of an address given to the Secretary of State for the purposes of subsection (4) above and such a withdrawal shall take effect on a date specified by the authority being a date no less than one month after the date on which the authority informs the Secretary of State that it wants to withdraw the notification of the address given.
(7) A local housing authority which has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of State under paragraph (a) of subsection (5) above may revoke the agreement and such a revocation shall take effect on a date specified by the authority being a date no less than one month after the date on which the authority informs the Secretary of State that it wants to revoke the agreement.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3056/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-housing-act-1989-electronic-communications-england-order-2000/article-3
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