Section 259A — Housing Act 1985: Effect of resolutions relating to housing action area or general improvement area.

Effect of resolutions relating to housing action area or general improvement area. 259A 1 A resolution of a local housing authority passed after the commencement of this section—

a declaring an area to be a housing action area, excluding land from a housing action area or declaring that an area shall cease to be a housing action area, or b declaring an area to be a general improvement area, excluding land from a general improvement area or declaring that an area shall cease to be a general improvement area, has effect, subject to subsection (2), from the day on which the resolution is passed.

2 A resolution declaring an area to be a general improvement area may be expressed to have effect from a future date, not later than four weeks after the passing of the resolution, on which the whole or part of that area will cease to be, or be included in, a housing action area.