Supply of goods and services: HA 1988 s. 89
HA 1988 s. 89 allows housing action trusts and development corporations to make agreements for goods and services as if they were local authorities.
A housing action trust and an urban development corporation established by an order under section 135 of the Local Govemment, Planning and Land Act 1980, or a housing action trust and a Mayoral development corporation, may enter into any agreement with each other for all or any of the purposes set out in section 1(1) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970, as if they were local authorities within the meaning of section I of that Act. Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, in section 1(4) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (supply of goods and services by local authorities to public bodies), after the words “ “ public body ” means any local authority” there shall be inserted “housing action trust established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988”.
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What it actually says
This section lets a housing action trust (HAT) and an urban development corporation (UDC) or a Mayoral development corporation (MDC) make agreements with each other for the supply of goods and services. They are treated as if they were local authorities under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970. That means the usual rules for local authorities contracting for goods and services apply to these agreements.
The section also adds HATs to the list of 'public bodies' in section 1(4) of the 1970 Act. This means that a local authority can supply goods or services to a HAT under that Act, just as it can to other public bodies. The change is made by inserting 'housing action trust established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988' after the words 'public body means any local authority' in that subsection.
When it applies
- A housing action trust needs to purchase office furniture from the urban development corporation that operates in the same area.
- A Mayoral development corporation wants to use the housing action trust's fleet of vehicles for a temporary project.
- A housing action trust and an urban development corporation agree to share maintenance services for their respective properties.
- A local authority supplies printing services to a housing action trust under the amended public body provisions.
What this section does not say
- This section does not cover the disposal of land by a housing action trust (that is dealt with in section 79 of the same Act).
- It does not cover the dissolution of a housing action trust (section 88).
- It does not cover agency agreements between a housing action trust and a local authority (section 87 covers those separately).
- It does not cover the right to buy or other provisions of Part IV of the Housing Act 1988.
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