Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024

Amendment of section 58 of Act of 2019

12. Section 58 of the Act of 2019 is amended—

(a) in subsection (2)—

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) in the case of an AHB other than an AHB referred to in section 26A, that the AHB no longer satisfies the eligibility criteria or any of them;”,

(ii) in paragraph (d), by the substitution of “.” for “;”, and

(iii) by the deletion of paragraph (e),

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

“(3) If the Regulator proposes to cancel the registration of an AHB under subsection (1), the Regulator shall give notice of the proposal and of the reasons for it to the AHB and, in so far as it is practicable, to each housing authority in whose functional area any dwellings provided or managed by the AHB for the purpose of alleviating a housing need are situated.”,

and

(c) in subsection (4)(a), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) information on its proposals relating to dwellings provided or managed by it for the purpose of alleviating a housing need, and”.