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Welsh Statutory Instruments
Housing, Wales
Made
23 February
2015
1.-(1) The title of this Order is the Housing (Wales)
Act 2014 (
Commencement
No. 2) Order 2015.
(2) In this Order "the Act" ("y Ddeddf")
means the Housing (
Wales)
Act 2014.
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class="LegP1No"
id="article-2">2. 25
February
2015 is the appointed
day
for
the
coming
into
force
of the
following
provisions of the Act-
(a)section 101 (assessment of accommodation needs);
(b)section 102 (report following
assessment);
(c)section 105 (provision of information upon request);
(d)section 106 (guidance) so far
as it is not yet in
force;
(e)section 107 (duties
in relation to housing strategies);
(f)section 108 (interpretation);
(g)section 109 (power to amend definition
of Gypsies and Travellers); and
(h)section 110 (consequential
amendments) and Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act.
Lesley Griffiths
The Minister for
Communities
and Tackling Poverty, one of the
Welsh
Ministers
23 February
2015
(This note is not part of the Order)
This order brings into force
on 25
February
2015 Part 3 of the Housing (
Wales)
Act 2014 ("the Act"), except sections 103 and 104 and brings section 106 into
force
for
remaining purposes. The order also
commences
consequential
amendments in Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act (relating to Gypsies and Travellers).
This is the second commencement
order made by the
Welsh
Ministers under the Act.
Article 2 commences,
for
all purposes, sections 101, 102, 105, 107 to110 and Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act. Article 2(
d)
brings section 106 into
force
for
remaining purposes.
Section 101 requires local housing authorities to carry
out assessments of the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers living in, or
from
time to time visiting, their area.
Section 102 provides that local housing authorities must submit a report to the Welsh
Ministers
for
approval of the authority's assessment of the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers residing in or resorting to its area.
Section 105 requires local housing authorities upon request to provide the Welsh
Ministers
with
such information to enable them to exercise their
functions
under Part 3 of the Act.
Section 106 requires local housing authorities, in the exercise of their functions
under Part 3 of the Act, to have regard to any guidance issued by the
Welsh
Ministers under this section.
Section 107 sets out the duties
placed on local housing authorities in respect of the accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers
where
a local housing authority prepares a housing strategy under section 87 of the Local Government Act 2003.
Section 108 defines
key expressions used in Part 3 of the Act.
Section 109 provides a power for
the
Welsh
Ministers to amend the
definition
of Gypsies and Travellers under section 108 and to make
consequential
amendments to the Mobile Homes (
Wales)
Act 2013 to reflect
further
changes
to the
definition.
class="LegExpNoteText"
style="text-indent: 1em; ">Section 110 introduces Part 2 of Schedule 3
which
makes
consequential
amendments relating to Part 3 of the Act.
(This note is not part of the Order)
The following
provisions of the Act have been brought into
force
to their
fullest
extent (unless indicated otherwise) by
commencement
order made before the
date
of this Order:
See also section 145(1) of the Act for
the provisions
which
came
into
force
on the
day
the Act received Royal Assent and section 145(2)
for
those provisions
which
came
into
force 2 months after the Act received Royal Assent.
2014 anaw 7.