15Housing Agency may give assistance

15 Housing Agency may give assistance

15 Housing Agency may give assistance

(1) A Housing Agency may, if it is consistent with the objects of this Act and if it considers it prudent to do so, give assistance to a registered community housing provider under a community housing agreement.

(2) Assistance may include, but is not limited to, either or both of the following:

(a) providing funding, land or other property to a community housing provider,

(b) entering into a partnership with a community housing provider.

(3) Assistance is not to be given to a community housing provider unless the community housing provider is registered and, as far as reasonably practicable, a Housing Agency is to withdraw assistance from a community housing provider that ceases to be registered.

(4) A Housing Agency is to ensure that the giving of any assistance under this section is consistent with Part 6 of the Government Sector Finance Act 2018 and any relevant guidelines of the Housing Secretary.

s 15: Am 2014 No 33, Sch 3.2 [3]; 2018 No 70, Sch 3.12.