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Homes Bill

This is the text of the Homes Bill, as amended in Committee in the House of Commons and printed on 1st February 2001.

 
  
Homes Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I
SELLERS' PACKS
Preliminary
Clause 
1.Meaning of "residential property" and other expressions.
2.Responsibility for marketing a property which is on the market.

Requirements relating to sellers' packs
3.Duties of responsible person where a property is on the market.
4.Other duties of person acting as estate agent.
5.Exceptions.
6.Defences.

Contents of sellers' packs
7.Contents of sellers' packs.
8.Home condition reports.

Enforcement
9.Enforcement.
10.Proceedings for offences under Part I.
11.Offences by employers, bodies corporate and partnerships.

Supplementary
12.Grants.
13.Regulations.
14.Acting as an estate agent.
15.General interpretation.

PART II
HOMELESSNESS AND ALLOCATION OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION
Homelessness reviews and strategies
16.Duty of local housing authority to formulate a homelessness strategy.
17.Homelessness reviews.
18.Homelessness strategies.
19.Sections 16 to 18: supplementary.

Other functions relating to homelessness
20.Provision of accommodation for persons not in priority need who are not homeless intentionally.
21.Abolition of minimum period for which an authority is subject to main homelessness duty.
22.Events which cause the duty to cease.
23.Abolition of duty under section 197.

Allocations under Part VI of the Housing Act 1996
24.Application of Part VI of 1996 Act.
25.Abolition of duty to maintain housing register.
26.Applications for housing accommodation.
27.Allocation schemes.

Supplementary
28.Wales.
29.Minor and consequential amendments, repeals and general saving.

PART III
FINAL PROVISIONS
30.Financial provisions.
31.Power to make transitional provision.
32.Commencement.
33.Extent and application to Isles of Scilly.
34.Short title.
 

SCHEDULES:
    Schedule 1-Fixed penalties and enforcement.
    Schedule 2-Minor and consequential amendments.
    Schedule 3-Repeals.
 

 
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