This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Disposals of Dwelling-houses by Local Authorities) Order 2002 and shall come into force on the day after that on which it is made.
Specified date: 20 February 2002: see above.
(1) In the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (“the 1993 Act”) section 135 (programme for disposals) is amended as follows.
(2) After subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(2A) The Secretary of State may prepare a disposals programme for any financial year.”
(3) In subsections (3) the words “in any financial year” and “for that year” are omitted.
(4) After that subsection there is inserted—
“(3A) Where the Secretary of State has included a disposal in a disposals programme for a financial year, a local authority may make a qualifying disposal under that programme in that or the following financial year.”
Specified date: 20 February 2002: see art 1.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Falconer
Minister of State, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions
15th February 2002
Paul Murphy
Secretary of State for Wales
19th February 2002
This Order amends section 135 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
Under section 135 of the Act the Secretary of State may make a disposals programme for the disposal of dwelling-houses by local authorities in a financial year. The local authorities included in the programme may only make disposals under a disposals programme in that financial year. Article 2 of the Order removes the restriction limiting the period for disposals to a single financial year and extends it to two financial years.
