Part II Provision of housing accommodation and associated town development in relief of over-populated districts
Exporting and Receiving Authorities
8 Exporting and receiving authorities.
1
References in this Part of this Act to an exporting authority are references to a local authority for a district which has a need for housing accommodation which cannot in the opinion of the Secretary of State be properly and fully met by the provision of housing accommodation within the district, who propose to make or have made arrangements for the meeting of that need, in whole or in part, by the provision of housing accommodation outside their district—
a
by another local authority, or a development corporation, in pursuance of an overspill agreement, or
b
by the Scottish Special Housing Association acting with the approval of the Secretary of State, or
c
by themselves in exercise of powers conferred by the principal Act.
2
References in this Part of, and in the Second Schedule to, this Act to a receiving authority are (subject to subsection (7) of the next following section) references to the local authority for any district in which housing accommodation is, or may be, provided in pursuance of arrangements such as are mentioned in the foregoing subsection.