Part 4: Social Housing in England Chapter 5: Insolvency of Registered Providers of Social Housing Housing administration Section 99: Applications for housing administration orders
This section sets out the process for applications to the court for housing administration orders.
	Subsection (1) provides that only the Secretary of State or the Regulator of Social Housing (with consent of the Secretary of State) can make an application for a housing administration order.
	Subsection (2) provides that when applying for such an order the applicant must give notice of the application to a number of people as follows:
every person who has appointed an administrative receiver of the registered provider;
every person who is or may be entitled to appoint an administrative receiver of the registered provider;
every person who is or may be entitled to make an appointment in relation to the registered provider under paragraph 14 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (appointment of administrators by holders of floating charges); and
any other persons specified by housing administration rules - these are rules that can be made under section 411 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( see section 102(5)).
	Notice must be given as soon as possible after the making of the application (see subsection (3)).