This bill would give the Housing Corporation the legal authority to delegate the exercise of its functions below board level, as it has been doing for many years.
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TIMETABLE
Responsible department: Office of the Deputy PM
Origin: Commons
Introduced: 30 March 2006
Second reading: 25 April 2006
Remaining stages: 11 May 2006
LORDS
Second reading: 13 June 2006
Committee stage: 11 July 2006
Third reading: 18 July 2006
ROYAL ASSENT: 19 July 2006
Gives the Housing Corporation a power of delegation either to a committee of the board or to officials with retrospective effect
Deems the Corporation always to have had such a power
BACKGROUND
The board had been acting on the basis that it had an implied power of delegation since its inception over 40 years ago, until it was discovered that the Housing Corporation board did not have this express power of delegation.
The legislation will restore the status quo, bringing all parties back to the situation they originally believed to exist.
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