Commentary on provisions of Act Social housing Section 37: Leaving the social housing stock: end of lease
Section 37 amends section 74 of the HRA 2008 which provides that where the lease of a home held by a registered provider expires it ceases to be social housing.
	Subsection (1)(b) clarifies that homes will cease to be social housing no matter how the leasehold ends and not just at the end of the term of the lease. Subsection (1)(a) is a consequential change to the title of section 74.
	Subsection (1)(c) closes a loophole which potentially might allow a registered provider to dispose of or declassify social housing stock without notifying or seeking consent from the regulator if the party from which it had leased the dwelling was another registered provider.
	Subsection (2) provides that these amendments will have retrospective effect. They will apply to leases that exist at the time the provision comes into force if they were granted on or after the 10 June 2022, i.e. those granted after the date on which this Bill for this Act was first published.