Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006

The Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006 (c 27) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was enacted because it was discovered that the Housing Corporation had been delegating its functions without lawful authority.[4] Its purpose was to retroactively legalise this.[5]

Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006[1]
Long titleAn Act to make provision about the delegation of functions by the Housing Corporation and Housing for Wales and about the validation of things done or evidenced by, and the authentication of the fixing of, their seals.
Citation2006 c 27
Territorial extentEngland and Wales and Scotland[2]
Dates
Royal assent19 July 2006
Commencement19 July 2006[3]
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

Section 1 - Power of Housing Corporation to delegate functions etc.

Section 1(1) inserted paragraph 6A of Schedule 6 to the Housing Associations Act 1985. It was repealed[6] for England and Wales[7] on 1 April 2009.[8]

Sections 1(2) to (4) read:

(2) The Housing Corporation is to be taken to have been authorised, at all times before the passing of this Act, to delegate the exercise of any of its functions to any of its members, committees, sub-committees or employees; and Housing for Wales is to be taken to have been so authorised at all times before its abolition.

(3) Anything which purports to have been done before the passing of this Act by the Housing Corporation or Housing for Wales is to be taken to have been validly done if done or evidenced by a document duly executed under its seal.

(4) If the fixing of the seal of the Housing Corporation or Housing for Wales has, at any time before the passing of this Act, been authenticated by the signature of any of its members or employees it is to be regarded as having been properly authenticated.[9]

Section 2

Section 2(1) authorises the citation of this Act by a short title and section 2(2) provides its extent.

See also

References
  1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 2(1) of this Act.
  2. The Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Act 2006, section 2(2)
  3. The Interpretation Act 1978, section 4(b)
  4. Explanatory notes to the Bill, paragraph 4
  5. Explanatory notes to the Bill, paragraph 15
  6. The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), article 6 and Schedule 2
  7. The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), article 1(2)
  8. The Housing Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/484), article 1(3)
  9. Digital copy of section 1 from Legislation.gov.uk


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