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Session 2003 - 04 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament

Housing Bill

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148    Offences relating to enforcement officers
149    Right of private action
Supplementary
150    Restrictions on disclosure or use of home information pack
151    Application of Part to sub-divided buildings
152    Office of Fair Trading
153    Grants
154    Interpretation of Part 5
155    Index of defined expressions: Part 5
Part 6
Other provisions about housing
Chapter 1
Secure tenancies
Introductory tenancies
156    Extension of introductory tenancies
Right to buy: when exercisable
157    Extension of qualifying period for right to buy
158    Exceptions to the right to buy: houses due to be demolished
Right to buy: discounts
159    Repayment of discount: periods and amounts applicable
160    Repayment of discount: increase attributable to home improvements to be
disregarded
161    Deferred resale agreements
Right to buy: landlord’s right of first refusal
162    Right of first refusal for landlord etc.
Right to buy: information
163    Information to help tenants decide whether to exercise right to buy etc.
Right to buy: termination of rent to mortgage scheme
164    Termination of rent to mortgage scheme
Suspension of certain rights in connection with anti-social behaviour
165    Secure tenancies: withholding of consent to mutual exchange
166    Right to buy: suspension of landlord’s obligation to complete
167    Disclosure of information as to orders etc. in respect of anti-social behaviour
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Chapter 2
Disposals attracting discounts other than under right to buy
Disposals by local authorities
168    Repayment of discount: periods and amounts applicable
169    Repayment of discount: increase attributable to home improvements to be
disregarded
170    Local authority’s right of first refusal
171    Deferred resale agreements
Disposals by registered social landlords
172    Repayment of discount: periods and amounts payable
173    Registered social landlord’s right of first refusal
174    Deferred resale agreements
Disposals by housing action trusts
175    Repayment of discount: periods and amounts payable
176    Housing action trust’s right of first refusal
177    Deferred resale agreements
Chapter 3
Mobile Homes
Site agreements
178    Particulars of site agreements to be given in advance
179    Implied terms relating to termination of agreements or disposal of mobile
homes
180    Power to amend terms implied in site agreements
181    Succession to site agreements by same sex partners
Protection from eviction etc.
182    Extension of protection from harassment for occupiers of mobile homes
Chapter 4
Miscellaneous
Succession between same sex partners
183    Succession to certain tenancies by same sex partners
Registered social landlords
184    Amendments relating to registered social landlords
185    Disclosure of information to registered social landlords for the purposes of
the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
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Grants for social housing
186    Additional power to give grants for social housing
Disabled facilities grant
187    Disabled facilities grant: caravans
Annual reports by local housing authorities
188    Removal of duty on local housing authorities to send annual reports to
tenants etc.
Social Housing Ombudsman for Wales
189    Social Housing Ombudsman for Wales
Part 7
Supplementary and final provisions
Residential property tribunals
190    Residential property tribunals
191    Appeals from residential property tribunals
Register of licences and management orders
192    Register of licences and management orders
Codes of practice and management regulations relating to HMOs
193    Approval of codes of practice with regard to the management of HMOs
194    Management regulations in respect of HMOs
Information provisions
195    Power to require documents to be produced
196    Enforcement of powers to obtain information
197    Use of information obtained for certain other statutory purposes
198    False or misleading information
Enforcement
199    Powers of entry
200    Warrant to authorise entry
201    Penalty for obstruction
202    Additional notice requirements for protection of owners
Documents
203    Power to prescribe forms
204    Power to dispense with notices
205    Service of documents
206    Licences and other documents in electronic form
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207    Timing and location of things done electronically
208    Proof of designations
Other supplementary provisions
209    Orders and regulations
210    Offences by bodies corporate
211    Power to up-rate level of fines for certain offences
212    Local inquiries
Meaning of "house in multiple occupation"
213    Meaning of “house in multiple occupation”
214    HMOs: houses and other relevant buildings
215    HMOs: certain converted blocks of flats
216    HMOs: persons not forming a single household
217    HMOs: persons treated as occupying premises as only or main residence
Other general interpretation provisions
218    Meaning of “appropriate national authority”, “local housing authority” etc.
219    Meaning of “lease”, “tenancy”, “occupier” and “owner” etc.
220    Meaning of “person having control” and “person managing” etc.
Final provisions
221    Minor and consequential amendments
222    Repeals
223    Devolution: Wales
224    The Isles of Scilly
225    Expenses
226    Short title, commencement and extent
Schedule 1   —    Procedure and appeals relating to improvement notices
Part 1   —    Service of improvement notices
Part 2   —    Service of notices relating to revocation or variation of
improvement notice
Part 3   —    Appeals relating to improvement notices
Schedule 2   —    Procedure and appeals relating to prohibition orders
Part 1   —    Service of copies of prohibition orders
Part 2   —    Service of notices relating to revocation or variation of
prohibition order
Part 3   —    Appeals relating to prohibition orders
Schedule 3   —    Improvement notices: enforcement action by local housing
authorities
Part 1   —    Taking of action by agreement
Part 2   —    Powers to take action without agreement
Part 3   —    Recovery of certain expenses
Schedule 4   —    Licences under Parts 2 and 3: mandatory conditions
Schedule 5   —    Licences under Parts 2 and 3: procedure and appeals
Part 1   —    Procedure relating to grant or refusal of licences
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Part 2   —    Procedure relating to variation or revocation of licences
Part 3   —    Appeals against licence decisions
Schedule 6   —    Management orders: procedure and appeals
Part 1   —    Procedure relating to making of management orders
Part 2   —    Procedure relating to variation or revocation of management
orders
Part 3   —    Appeals against decisions relating to management orders
Schedule 7   —    Penalty charge notices under section 147
Schedule 8   —    Registered social landlords
Schedule 9   —    New Schedule 2A to the Housing Act 1996
Schedule 10   —    Residential property tribunals: procedure
Schedule 11   —    Buildings which are not HMOs (except in Part 1)
Schedule 12   —    Minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 13   —    Repeals

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