Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 1968
HOUSING, ENGLAND
The Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2006
Made
19th July 2006
Laid before Parliament
26th July 2006
Coming into force
24th August 2006
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(7) of the Housing Act 1996( 1 ), makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and application
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 24 th August 2006.
(2) This Order applies in relation to bodies eligible for registration as social landlords by the Housing Corporation in England( 2 ).
Additional permissible purposes
2. —(1) The following are specified as permissible purposes additional to those specified in section 2(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (eligibility for registration as a social landlord)—
(a) the provision, construction, improvement or management of sites where caravans may be stationed for use as temporary or permanent residences for gypsies and travellers; and
(b) the provision of services to the site of any description, including the arranging or carrying out of works of maintenance or repair or encouraging or facilitating the carrying out of such work..
(2) In paragraph (1)(a)—
“caravan” shall be construed in accordance with article 3; and
“gypsies and travellers” means—
(a)
persons with a cultural tradition of nomadism or of living in a caravan; and
(b)
all other persons of a nomadic habit of life, whatever their race or origin, including—
(i)
such persons who, on grounds only of their own or their family’s or dependant’s educational or health needs or old age, have ceased to travel temporarily or permanently; and
(ii)
members of an organised group of travelling showpeople or circus people (whether or not travelling together as such).
Meaning of caravan
3. —(1) For the purposes of article 2 “caravan” means any structure designed or adapted for human habitation which is capable of being moved from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer) and any motor vehicle so designed or adapted but does not include—
(a) any railway rolling stock which is for the time being on rails forming part of a railway system; or
(b) a structure of the description specified in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) any of whose dimensions, when the structure is assembled, exceed a limit specified in paragraph (3).
(2) A structure designed or adapted for human habitation which—
(a) is composed of not more than two sections separately constructed and designed to be assembled on a site by means of bolts, clamps or other devices; and
(b) is, when assembled, physically capable of being moved by road from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer),
is not excluded from being a caravan for the purposes of article 2 by reason only that it cannot lawfully be so moved on a highway when assembled.
(3) The limits are—
(a) length (exclusive of any drawbar): 18.288 metres (60 feet);
(b) width: 6.096 metres (20 feet);
(c) overall height of living accommodation (measured internally from the floor at the lowest level to the ceiling at the highest level): 3.048 metres (10 feet).
Signed by authority of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Meg Munn
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
19th July 2006
( 1 )
1992 c. 52 . The functions of the Secretary of State under section 2(7) of the Housing Act 1996, were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672 .
( 2 )
See, sections 1 and 56 of the Housing Act 1996 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.