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The Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

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Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 73

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made

16th January 1997

Laid before Parliament

22nd January 1997

Coming into force

12th February 1997

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 96 of the Housing Act 1985(1) and section 135 of the Housing Act 1996(2) hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 12th February 1997.

Amendment

2.  The Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) Regulations 1994(3) are amended as follows—

(a)in regulation 3(1), after “secure tenants” insert “and introductory tenants”;

(b)in regulation 3(2)

(i)for “dwelling-houses let to secure tenants” substitute, “relevant dwelling-houses”; and

(ii)at the end add—

  • In this paragraph “a relevant dwelling-house” means a dwelling-house let to a secure tenant or to an introductory tenant..

(c)in regulations 5(1), 5(2)(a), 7(1) and 7(3) after “secure tenant” insert “or intro-ductory tenant”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

14th January 1997

William Hague

Secretary of State for Wales

16th January 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply the Secure Tenants of Local Housing Authorities (Right to Repair) Regulations 1994 to introductory tenants of such authorities.

(1)

1985 c. 68; section 96 was substituted by section 121 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28).

(3)

S.I. 1994/133, as amended by S.I. 1994/844.

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