Housing (Control of Occupation) (Amendment of Housing Register) Ordinance, 2016

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The Housing (Control of Occupation) (Amendment of Housing Register) Ordinance, 2016

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 31^st July, 2015[a] and in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 52 and 66 of the Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) Law, 1994[b], hereby order:-

Addition of dwellings to Part A of Housing Register.

1. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Authority may inscribe in Part A of the Housing Register each of the dwellings to be known as "8 La Salerie Inn Apartments", "9 La Salerie Inn Apartments", and "10 La Salerie Inn Apartments", La Salerie, Saint Peter Port.

Applications to be made within 12 months.

2. An application to the Authority to inscribe each of the dwellings described in section 1 in Part A must be made within a period of 12 months immediately following the date of commencement of this Ordinance.

Condition to be satisfied by applicant.

3. The Authority shall not inscribe in Part A of the Housing Register any dwelling described in section 1 unless it is satisfied that another dwelling previously so inscribed has, at the instance of the applicant, been deleted from Part A.

Licences to lapse if inscription not effected within 12 months.

4. Should the owner of a dwelling described in section 1 fail, within a period of 12 months immediately following the date of commencement of this Ordinance, to make application to the Authority to inscribe the dwellings in Part A, or the Authority is unable to grant the application because it is not satisfied of the matter set out in section 3, any housing licence held in respect of the occupation of that dwelling and valid at the expiration of that period shall thereupon cease to be valid.

Interpretation.

5. Except where the context requires otherwise -

"applicant" means the owner of a dwelling who is making an application for inscription of that dwelling on Part A,

"Part A" means Part A of the Housing Register,

and other expressions used in this Ordinance have the same meanings as in the Housing (Control of Occupation) (Guernsey) Law, 1994, as amended.

Citation.

6. This Ordinance may be cited as the Housing (Control of Occupation) (Amendment of Housing Register) Ordinance, 2016.

Commencement.

7. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st February, 2016.

[a]	Article XXII of Billet d'État No. XIV of 2015.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXXV(1), p. 75; amended by Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXXVIII, p. 193 and Vol. XLII(1), p. 34; Orders in Council No. VIII of 2007 and No. I of 2009; and Recueil d'Ordonnances Tome XXXIII, p. 100.