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Housing
Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill |
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Explanatory notes to the Bill,
prepared by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, |
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are published separately as Bill
164—EN. |
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EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN
RIGHTS |
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Mr Secretary Prescott has made
the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the |
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In my view the provisions of the
Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill are |
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compatible with the Convention
rights. |
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Make
provision about the delegation of functions by the Housing Corporation
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and Housing for Wales and
about the validation of things done or evidenced |
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by, and the authentication
of the fixing of, their seals. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Power
of Housing Corporation to delegate functions etc. |
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(1) |
In Schedule 6 to the Housing
Associations Act 1985 (c. 69) (constitution of |
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Housing Corporation), after
paragraph 6 insert— |
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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 |
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(2) |
The Housing Corporation
is to be taken to have been authorised, at all times |
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before the passing of this
Act, to delegate the exercise of any of its functions to |
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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 |
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(3) |
Anything which purports
to have been done before the passing of this Act by |
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the Housing Corporation or
Housing for Wales is to be taken to have been |
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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, |
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at any time before the passing
of this Act, been authenticated by the signature |
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of any of its members or
employees it is to be regarded as having been properly |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006. |
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(2) |
This Act extends to England
and Wales and Scotland. |
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