Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (No. 2) Order 1999
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1999/1206 |
| Year | 1999 |
1999 No. 1206
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (No. 2) Order 1999
Made 21th April 1999
Laid before Parliament 30th April 1999
Coming into force 1st July 1999
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(7) of the Housing Act 19961, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:–
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (No. 2) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st July 1999.
Additional permissible purposes or objects
2.—(1) The following are specified as permissible purposes or objects additional to those specified in section 2(4) of the Housing Act 19962(eligibility for registration as a social landlord)–
(a)
(a) providing land, amenities or services, or providing, constructing, repairing or improving buildings, either exclusively or together with other persons, for persons who are not residents of the body if the activity in question is also being carried out for residents of the body;
(b)
(b) providing amenities or services for residents all or some of whom are residents of accommodation being managed by the body under section 2(4)(d) of the Housing Act 1996;
(c)
(c) carrying out regeneration activities for the benefit of persons all or some of whom are persons benefitting from any of the activities carried out by the body which are mentioned in or specified under section 2 of that Act (other than by this sub-paragraph).
(2) In paragraph (1)–
(a)
(a) “persons”, except where the word first occurs in sub-paragraph (a), does not include a body of persons corporate or unincorporate;
(b)
(b) “regeneration activities” means activities which contribute to the regeneration or development of an area for the purposes of section 126 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 19963.
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
21st April 1999
Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
21st April 1999
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 2 of the Housing Act 1996 specifies the bodies that are eligible for registration as social landlords...
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