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Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister,

are published separately as Bill 164—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Prescott has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill are

compatible with the Convention rights.

 

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Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill

 
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Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill

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A

Bill

To

Make provision about the delegation of functions by the Housing Corporation

and Housing for Wales and about the validation of things done or evidenced

by, and the authentication of the fixing of, their seals. 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Power of Housing Corporation to delegate functions etc.

(1)   

In Schedule 6 to the Housing Associations Act 1985 (c. 69) (constitution of

Housing Corporation), after paragraph 6 insert—

“Delegation of functions

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The Housing Corporation may delegate the exercise of any of its

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functions to any of its members, committees, sub-committees or

employees.”

(2)   

The Housing Corporation is to be taken to have been authorised, at all times

before the passing of this Act, to delegate the exercise of any of its functions to

any of its members, committees, sub-committees or employees; and Housing

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for Wales is to be taken to have been so authorised at all times before its

abolition.

(3)   

Anything which purports to have been done before the passing of this Act by

the Housing Corporation or Housing for Wales is to be taken to have been

validly done if done or evidenced by a document duly executed under its seal.

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(4)   

If the fixing of the seal of the Housing Corporation or Housing for Wales has,

at any time before the passing of this Act, been authenticated by the signature

of any of its members or employees it is to be regarded as having been properly

authenticated.

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Short title and extent

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(1)   

This Act may be cited as the Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006.

(2)   

This Act extends to England and Wales and Scotland.

 
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