Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019
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Number 47 of 2019 | ||
HOUSING (REGULATION OF APPROVED HOUSING BODIES) ACT 2019 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority | ||
8. Establishment of Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority | ||
14. Appearance of chief executive before Committee of Public Accounts | ||
15. Accountability of chief executive to other Oireachtas Committees | ||
Regulation of AHBs | ||
Registration | ||
29. Notice of proposed decision of Regulator to refuse application | ||
Information and records | ||
Standards | ||
Standards Assessment and Compliance Plans | ||
43. Entry on register of particulars of notice of non-implementation | ||
Investigation | ||
Intervention | ||
Transfer of Certain Dwellings and Protection of AHBs | ||
53. Protection of tenants: requirement to transfer certain dwellings | ||
Notice to Regulator of Certain Events and Examinership | ||
56. Examinership: modification of Part 10 of Act of 2014 for purposes of application to AHBs | ||
Cancellation of Registration of AHB | ||
60. Removal from register following cancellation of registration | ||
Appeals | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
65. Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of confidential information | ||
Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions | ||
68. Construction of certain references in other Acts or instruments made under Acts | ||
70. Transitional provisions: payment of grant under section 6(2)(d) of Act of 1992 | ||
Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority | ||
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Acts Referred to | ||
Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005 | ||
Carer’s Leave Act 2001 (No. 19) | ||
Central Bank Act 1971 (No. 24) | ||
Charities Act 2009 (No. 6) | ||
Companies Act 2014 (No. 38) | ||
Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 (No. 8) | ||
Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22) | ||
Friendly Societies Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict., c. 25) | ||
Friendly Societies Acts 1896 to 2018 | ||
Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 | ||
Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict., c. 39) | ||
Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1893 to 2018 | ||
Iveagh Trust Acts 1899 to 1961 | ||
Maternity Protection Acts 1994 and 2004 | ||
Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005 | ||
Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019 | ||
Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 (No. 11) | ||
Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (No. 33) | ||
Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (No. 37) | ||
Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2014 | ||
Standards in Public Office Act 2001 (No. 31) | ||
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39) | ||
Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014 | ||
Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015 | ||
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Number 47 of 2019 | ||
HOUSING (REGULATION OF APPROVED HOUSING BODIES) ACT 2019 | ||
An Act to provide for the regulation of approved housing bodies for the purposes of protecting certain housing assets provided or managed by such bodies; to establish a body to be known in the Irish language as An tÚdarás Rialála Comhlachtaí Tithíochta Ceadaithe or, in the English language, as the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority and to confer functions on it; to provide for the registration of certain persons as approved housing bodies; to provide for the setting of standards for approved housing bodies relating to governance, financial management, property and asset management and tenancy management and compliance with those standards; to provide for the carrying out of standards assessments and the monitoring of the implementation of compliance plans; to provide for the carrying out of investigations; to make provision in relation to the protection of approved housing bodies; to provide for the application, with modification, of certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 to approved housing bodies; to provide for the cancellation of registration of approved housing bodies; to provide for the establishment of an Appeals Panel to hear appeals from certain decisions of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority; for those purposes to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[23rd December, 2019] | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |
