TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS (Hansard, 29 October 1985)

HC Deb 29 October 1985 vol 84 cc969-70 969

§ Amendments made: No. 58, in page 40, line 41, column 2, leave out `1st January' and insert '1st April'.

§ No. 59, in page 40, line 42, column 1, after '427', insert 'of that Act'.

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§ No. 60, in page 40, line 42, column 2, leave out `1985–86' and insert '1986–87'.

§ No. 61, in page 41, line 6, leave out `1st January' and insert `lst April'.

§ No. 62, in page 41, line 12, leave out `lst January' and insert '1st April'.

§ No. 63, in page 41, line 13, at end insert— `Commencement of the Local Government Act 1985 (c.. 51) 5. —(1) The consolidating Acts and the Local Government Act 1985 shall be construed and have effect as if the consolidating Acts had come into force immediately after that Act. (2) References to a local authority in provisions of the consolidating Acts which confer powers, duties, rights or immunities by reference to things done by or in relation to a local authority before 1st April 1986 include references to the councils abolished by the Local Government Act 1985. (3) Sub-paragraph (2) applies in particular to the following provisions—

section 45(2)(b) of the Housing Act 1985 (restriction on service charges payable after disposal of house by local authority),
section 444(4) of that Act and section 85(4) of the Housing Associations Act 1985 (power to agree to indemnify mortgagee of property disposed of by local authority),
section 573(1) of the Housing Act 1985 (definition of public sector authority for the purposes of assistance for persons having acquired defective housing from such an authority),
paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4 to that Act (public sector landlords for purposes of qualifying period for the right to buy),
section 41(2) of the Housing Associations Act 1985 (approval of programme for purposes of housing association grant), and
section 14(4) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (exclusion of implied repairing obligation in case of lease granted by local authority).'.—[The Solicitor-General.]

§ Schedule 3, as amended, agreed to.