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Section 44: Proposals as to ownership and management of landlord's land.

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

Part I: Social Rented Sector regulated by the Welsh Ministers — Chapter IV: General powers of the Relevant Authority

During the moratorium (see sections 42 and 43) the Welsh Ministers may make proposals as to the future ownership and management of the land held by the registered social landlord, designed to secure the continued proper management of the landlord's land by a registered social landlord.

In drawing up its proposals the Welsh Ministers—

shall consult the landlord and, so far as is practicable, its tenants, and
shall have regard to the interests of all the landlord's creditors, both secured and unsecured.

The Relevant Authority shall also consult—

where the landlord is a registered society, the appropriate registrar, and
where the landlord is a registered charity, the Charity Commission .

So far as practicable no proposals shall be made which have the effect that unsecured creditors of the landlord are in a worse position than they would otherwise be.

Where the landlord is a charity the proposals shall not require the landlord to act outside the terms of its trusts, and any disposal of housing accommodation occupied under a tenancy or licence from the landlord must be to another charity whose objects appear to the Welsh Ministers to be, as nearly as practicable, akin to those of the landlord.

The Relevant Authority shall serve a copy of its proposals on—

the landlord and its officers,
the secured creditors of the landlord, and
any liquidator, administrator, administrative receiver or receiver appointed in respect of the landlord or its land;

and it shall make such arrangements as it considers appropriate to see that the members, tenants and unsecured creditors of the landlord are informed of the proposals.

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