Sch 18 para 2
(1) A local housing authority may make payments to or for the benefit of a tenant or licensee of a dwelling-house within its Housing Revenue Account with a view to assisting or encouraging that person to move to qualifying accommodation. (2) In sub-paragraph (1) “ qualifying accommodation ” means a dwelling-house made available to the person concerned as tenant or licensee by any of the following— (a) the local housing authority making the grant or any other local housing authority; (aa) a private registered provider of social housing; or (b) a registered social landlord. (3) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to a dwelling-house being within the Housing Revenue Account of a local housing authority is to a dwelling-house to which section 74(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 for the time being applies. (4) In this paragraph— “dwelling-house” has the meaning given by section 112 of the Housing Act 1985; and “tenant” does not include a tenant under a long tenancy as defined in section 115 of that Act.