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Section 18: Social housing grants.

Housing Act 1996 · 1996 c. 52View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Social Rented Sector regulated by the Welsh Ministers — Chapter III: Grants and other financial matters

The Relevant Authority may make grants to registered social landlords in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them in connection with their housing activities.

The Relevant Authority... shall specify in relation to grants under this section—

the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for grant,
the circumstances in which grant is or is not to be payable,
the method for calculating, and any limitations on, the amount of grant, and
the manner in which, and time or times at which, grant is to be paid.

In making a grant under this section, the Welsh Ministers may provide that the grant is conditional on compliance by the landlord with such conditions as the Welsh Ministers may specify.

The Relevant Authority may, with the agreement of a local housing authority, appoint the authority to act as its agent in connection with the assessment and payment of grant under this section.

The appointment—

if made by the Housing Corporation, shall be on such terms as the Housing Corporation may, with the approval of the Secretary of State given with the consent of the Treasury, specify, and
An appointment made by the Welsh Ministers under this section , shall be on such terms as the Welsh Ministers may specify;

and the authority shall act in accordance with those terms.

Where—

a grant under this section is payable to a registered social landlord, and
at any time property to which the grant relates becomes vested in, or is leased for a term of years to, or reverts to, another registered social landlord, or trustees for another such landlord,

this section (including this subsection) shall have effect after that time as if the grant, or such proportion of it as is specified or determined under subsection (7), were payable to the other landlord.

The proportion mentioned in subsection (6) is that which, in the circumstances of the particular case—

the Welsh Ministers, acting in accordance with such principles as it may from time to time determine, may specify as being appropriate, or
the Welsh Ministers may determine to be appropriate.

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