Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 3205

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996

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1996 No. 3205

CONTRACTING OUT

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996

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 sections 70(2) and (4) and 77(1) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such representatives of local government as they consider appropriate, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
    1.    (1)  This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996.

    (2)  This article and article 3 of this Order shall come into force on 20th January 1997 and article 2 of this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

    (3)  In this Order—

"the Act" means the Housing Act 1996^[2];
"an authority" means a local housing authority as defined in the Housing Act 1985^[3].

    (4)  Any expressions used in this Order which are also used in the Act have the same meaning as they have in the Act.

Contracting out of allocation of housing functions
    2.    Any function of an authority which is conferred by or under Part VI of the Act (allocation of housing accommodation), except one which is listed in Schedule 1 to this Order, may be exercised by, or by employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by the authority whose function it is.

Contracting out of homelessness functions
    3.    Any function of an authority which is conferred by or under Part VII of the Act (homelessness), except one which is listed in Schedule 2 to this Order, may be exercised by, or by employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by the authority whose function it is.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

James Clappison

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment

18th December 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathon Evans

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Welsh Office

20th December 1996

[1] 1994 c. 40. back

[2] 1996 c. 52. back

[3] 1985 c. 68. back

Explanatory Note