(1) This Order may be cited as the Regulatory Reform (Schemes under Section 129 of the Housing Act 1988)(England) Order 2003.
(2) This Order shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(3) This Order extends only to England and Wales.
Specified date: 1 April 2003: see para (2) above.
This Order does not extend to Scotland: see para (3) above.
(1) Section 129 of the Housing Act 1988 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1), after “and” insert “, where the authority is in Wales,”.
(3) In subsection (2), after “together with” insert “, where the authority is in Wales,”.
(4) In subsection (3)—
(a) after “housing authority” insert “in Wales”; and
(b) for “approved, the authority” substitute “made and, where the authority is in Wales, approved, a local housing authority”.
(5) In subsection (6), after “Where a scheme” insert “has been” and after the words “under this section” insert “and, where the authority is in Wales,”.
Specified date: 1 April 2003: see art 1(2).
This Order does not extend to Scotland: see art 1(3).
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Jeff Rooker
Minister of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
31st March 2003
Section 129 of the Housing Act 1988 enables a local housing authority in England and Wales, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to make a scheme to pay grants to certain tenants or licensees of the authority to assist them to buy a dwelling-house or to carry out works to a dwelling-house. The Secretary of State may require a scheme to contain particular provisions as a condition of his approval.
This Order amends section 129 by removing the requirement for the approval of the Secretary of State to a scheme, which is made by a local housing authority in England. The Order also makes consequential amendments.
