Section 132: Contributions by the Secretary of State.

Local Government and Housing Act 1989 · 1989 c. 42View on legislation.gov.uk

*Part VIII: *

The Secretary of State may pay contributions to local housing authoritiestowards such expenditure incurred by them under this Part as he may determine.

The rate or rates of the contributions, the calculation of the expenditureto which they relate and the manner of their payment shall be such as may bedetermined by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury.

A determination under subsection (1) or subsection (2) above may bemade—

generally, or
with respect to a particular local housing authority or description ofauthority, including a description framed by reference to authorities in aparticular area,

and may make different provision in relation to different cases ordescriptions of case.

Subsections (3) to (6) of section 96 above shall apply in relation to thissection, substituting a reference to subsection (1) or, as the case may be,subsection (2) above for any reference to the corresponding subsection of thatsection.

In the application of section 516 of the Housing Act1985 (contributions by Secretary of State towards expense of grants under PartXV of that Act) in relation to a case where—

an application under section 461 of that Act has been approved by thelocal housing authority after 14th June 1989, and
the date which is the certified date, as defined in section 499(3) of thatAct, in relation to the works to which that application relates falls on orafter the day appointed under section 195 below for the coming into force ofsection 101 above,

for subsection (2) there shall be substituted the followingsubsection—

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