Section 74 amends section 26 of the Local Government Act 1974. Section 26, subsection (8) prohibits the Commission for Local Administration in England from investigating complaints about the matters set out in Schedule 5 to that Act. This amendment provides a targeted exemption to section 26, subsection (8), allowing the Commission to investigate complaints about decisions taken by local authorities in their capacity as registered providers of social housing but where the complainant has no right to make a complaint against that registered provider under a redress scheme approved under Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1996 (the Housing Ombudsman Service).
Part 2: Residential landlord Chapter 2: Landlord Redress Schemes Section 74: Local Commissioners’ investigation of complaints by persons who are not tenants Effect