Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2008

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Please note that this Law has been repealed by - Population Management (Guernsey) Law, 2016.

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The Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2008

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 27^th day of September 2007[a], have approved the following provisions which, subject to the Sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, shall have force of law in the Island of Guernsey.

Amendment of Law of 1994.

1. The Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) Law, 1994[b], is further amended in accordance with the provisions of this Law.

2. Immediately after section 2 (Applications for housing licences) insert the following section –

"Power to make regulations providing for the payment of fees.

2A. The Authority may make regulations providing that a fee shall be payable on an application made under section 2(1).".

3. Immediately after section 14 (Application for declaration of lawful residence) insert the following section –

"Power to make regulations providing for the payment of fees.

14A. The Authority may make regulations providing that a fee shall be payable on an application made under section 11(1) or 14(1).".

4. Immediately after section 46 (Declarations of registration) insert the following section –

"Power to make regulations providing for the payment of charges.

46A. The Authority may make regulations providing that a fee shall be payable on an application made under section 46(1).".

5. Immediately after section 66 (General provisions as to Ordinances) insert the following section –

"General provisions as to regulations.

66A. (1) Regulations under this Law -

(a) may be amended or repealed by subsequent regulations hereunder;

(b) may contain such consequential, incidental, supplementary and transitional provision as may appear to the Authority to be necessary or expedient.

(2) Any power conferred upon the Authority by this Law to make regulations may be exercised -

(a) in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of cases;

(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised -

(i) the full provision to which the power extends, or any lesser provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise);

(ii) the same provision for all cases, or different provision for different cases or classes of cases, or different provision for the same case or class of case for different purposes;

(iii) any such provision either unconditionally or subject to any prescribed conditions.

(3) Regulations under this Law shall be laid before a meeting of the States as soon as possible after being made; and, if at that or the next meeting the States resolve that the regulations be annulled, then they shall cease to have effect, but without prejudice to anything done under them or to the making of new regulations.".

Citation and commencement.

6. This Law may be cited as the Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2008 and shall come into force on the first day of January, 2009 or, if later, the date on which it is registered on the Records of the Island of Guernsey.

[a]	Article XII of Billet d'État XX of 2007
[b]	Order in Council No. IV of 1994; amended by No. VI of 1998; No. III of 2002; and No. VIII of 2007; also amended by the Machinery of Government (Transfer of Functions) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2003 (No. XXXIII of 2003).