Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019

Transitional provisions: certain assistance under section 6 of Act of 1992 to be continued on cancellation of registration under section 58

69. (1) In this section “relevant day” means the day on which the decision to cancel the registration of an AHB takes effect under section 58 .

(2) This section applies to a person—

(a) in respect of whom the registration of the person as an AHB has been cancelled under section 58 with effect from the relevant day, and

(b) who, before the relevant day, was receiving assistance (other than assistance under section (6)(2)(d) of the Act of 1992) from a housing authority under section 6 of the Act of 1992 (in this section referred to as the “existing assistance”).

(3) A person to whom this section applies may, notwithstanding section 6 of the Act of 1992 and subject to the condition specified in subsection (4) and to the terms and conditions of the existing assistance, continue to receive the existing assistance from the relevant day.

(4) The condition referred to in subsection (3) is that the person to whom this section applies continues to comply with the terms and conditions of the existing assistance.

(5) Where a person to whom this section applies continues to receive the existing assistance by virtue of this section, this Act, subject to all necessary modifications, shall apply to the person, for the duration of the term of the existing assistance and subject to the terms and conditions of the existing assistance, as if the person were an AHB.

(6) Where a person to whom this section applies continues to receive the existing assistance by virtue of this section, such person shall not receive from a housing authority any assistance under section 6 of the Act of 1992 that is not existing assistance.