Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/section/74
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Part III Transfer of housing accommodation etc.Section 74Table of ContentsContentMore ResourcesPrevious: ProvisionNext: ProvisionPlain ViewPrint OptionsWhat VersionLatest available (Revised)Original (As enacted)Advanced FeaturesShow Geographical Extent(e.g. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)Show Timeline of ChangesOpening OptionsOpen whole ActOpen Act without schedulesOpen Schedules onlyMore ResourcesOriginal Print PDFView moreChanges to legislation:There are outstanding changes not yet made by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team to Housing Act 1988. Any changes that have already been made by the team appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.Changes to LegislationRevised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. Changes and effects are recorded by our editorial team in lists which can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area. Where those effects have yet to be applied to the text of the legislation by the editorial team they are also listed alongside the legislation in the affected provisions. Use the ‘more’ link to open the changes and effects relevant to the provision you are viewing.Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Act associated Parts and Chapters:Changes and effectsThis section lists the changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Act, associated Parts and Chapters where applicable. This includes any insertions of whole new Parts, Chapters or provisions yet to be inserted into this Act. These effects are included in this view as they may be (but won’t necessarily be) relevant to the specific provision that you are viewing.Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):s. 15A inserted by 2013 c. 3 s. 6s. 20C inserted by 2011 c. 20 s. 163(2)s. 20D inserted by 2011 c. 20 s. 163(3)s. 21A inserted by 2015 c. 20 s. 38s. 21B inserted by 2015 c. 20 s. 39s. 21C inserted by 2015 c. 20 s. 40s. 42A inserted by S.I. 2013/1036 Sch. 1 para. 93Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the Housing Act 1988Commencement OrdersThis section lists the commencement orders yet to be applied to the whole Act. These effects are included in this view as they may be (but won’t necessarily be) relevant to the specific provision that you are viewing. Where applicable the commencement orders are listed under two headings, firstly those that bring some part of the Act you are viewing into force and secondly, those that bring into force legislation that affects some part of the legislation you are viewing. If you are viewing a prospective version or there is a prospective version available there may be commencement orders listed here that are relevant to the provision you are viewing.Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:S.I. 2004/1502 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 38)S.I. 2004/3338 art. 3(c) commences (2002 c. 30)S.I. 2010/862 art. 2 3 commences (2008 c. 17)S.I. 2011/2329 art. 2	3	commences (2011 c. 5)74 Transfer of land and other property to housing action trusts.E+W(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide for the transfer from a local housing authority to a housing action trust of—
(a)all or any of the authority’s local authority housing situated in the designated area; and
(b)any other land held or provided in connection with that local authority housing.
(2)Without prejudice to the powers under subsection (1) above, if in the opinion of the Secretary of State a housing action trust requires for the purposes of its functions any land which, though not falling within that subsection, is situated in the designated area and held (for whatever purpose) by a local authority, the Secretary of State may by order provide for the transfer of that land to the trust.
(3)The Secretary of State may by order transfer from a local housing authority or other local authority to a housing action trust so much as appears to him to be appropriate of any property which is held or used by the authority in connection with any local authority housing or other land transferred to the trust under subsection (1) or subsection (2) above; and for this purpose “property” includes chattels of any description and rights and liabilities, whether arising by contract or otherwise.
(4)A transfer of any local authority housing or other land or property under the preceding provisions of this section shall be on such terms, including financial terms, as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and an order under this section may provide that, notwithstanding anything in section 141 of the M1Law of Property Act 1925 (rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion), any rent or other sum which—
(a)arises under a tenancy of any local authority housing or other land transferred to the housing action trust under subsection (1) or subsection (2) above, and
shall continue to be recoverable by the local housing authority or, as the case may be, the local authority to the exclusion of the trust and of any other person in whom the reversion on the tenancy may become vested.
(5)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4) above, the financial terms referred to in that subsection may include provision for payments by a local authority (as well as or instead of payments to a local authority); and the transfer from a local housing authority or other local authority of any local authority housing or other land or property by virtue of this section shall not be taken to give rise to any right to compensation.
(6)Where an order is made under this section—
(a)payments made by a local authority as mentioned in subsection (5) above shall be [F1[F2capital expenditure for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 2003 (capital finance)];]
(b)unless the order otherwise provides, payments made to a local authority as mentioned in subsection (5) above shall be regarded for the purposes of [F3section 9(1) of that Act as sums received by the authority in respect of the disposal by it of an interest in a capital asset.]
(7)Any power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(8)In this section “local authority” means any of the following—
(b)the council of a county;
(c)the Inner London Education Authority;
(d)an authority established by an order under section 10(1) of the M2Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal);
(e)a joint authority established by Part IV of that Act; F4. . .
(f)a residuary body established by Part VII of that Act.
[F5(fa)an economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;
(fb)a combined authority established under section 103 of that Act;]
[F6(g)the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.]
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