Housing Act 1996

2(1)A local housing authority may make payments to or for the benefit of a tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house within its Housing Revenue Account with a view to assisting or encouraging that person to move to qualifying accommodation.E+W

(2)In sub-paragraph (1) “qualifying accommodation” means a dwelling-house made available to the person concerned as tenant or licensee by any of the following—

(a)the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority;

[F1(aa)a private registered provider of social housing;]

or

(b)a registered social landlord.

(3)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to a dwelling-house being within the Housing Revenue Account of a local housing authority is to a dwelling-house to which section 74(1) of the M1Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies.

(4)In this paragraph—

• “dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the M2Housing Act 1985; and

• “tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.