18No dealings with land in which Housing Agency has an interest without consent of Housing Agency

18 No dealings with land in which Housing Agency has an interest without consent of Housing Agency

18 No dealings with land in which Housing Agency has an interest without consent of Housing Agency

(1) A community housing provider must not transfer or otherwise deal with land in which a Housing Agency has an interest unless:

(a) the Housing Agency consents to the transfer or other dealing, or

(b) the transfer or other dealing is authorised, or is of a class that is authorised, by a community housing agreement with that community housing provider (an exempt transaction), or

(c) a community housing agreement with the community housing provider provides that this section does not apply to the land concerned.

(2) A Housing Agency must not unreasonably withhold consent under subsection (1) (a).

(3) The Registrar-General must, on application by a Housing Agency, make a recording in the appropriate Register to signify that the land specified in the application is subject to this section.

(4) The application is to provide details of any exempt transactions.

(5) If a recording under subsection (3) has been made by the Registrar-General on application by a Housing Agency, the Registrar-General is not to register a transfer of that land or any other dealing that is otherwise registrable under the Real Property Act 1900 or the Conveyancing Act 1919 unless:

(a) the consent of the Housing Agency to the transfer or other dealing has been endorsed on the transfer or other dealing, or

(b) the transfer or other dealing is an exempt transaction (as notified to the Registrar-General by the Housing Agency), or

(c) the recording has ceased to have effect (as recorded by the Registrar-General under subsection (6)).

(6) The Registrar-General must, on the application of a Housing Agency that applied for a recording under subsection (3), make in the appropriate Register a recording to signify that the recording made under subsection (3) has ceased to have effect.

(7) An application by a Housing Agency under this section: