{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-125D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-125D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/125D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125D",
  "heading": "Tenant’s notice of intention.",
  "text": "(1) Where a notice under section 125 has been served on a secure tenant, he shall within the period specified in subsection (2) either—\n(a) serve a written notice on the landlord stating either that he intends to pursue his claim to exercise the right to buy or that he withdraws that claim, or\n(b) serve a notice under section 144 claiming to exercise the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms.\n(2) The period for serving a notice under subsection (1) is the period of twelve weeks beginning with whichever of the following is the later—\n(a) the service of the notice under section 125, . . .\n(b) where the tenant exercises his right to have the value of the dwelling-house determined or re-determined by the district valuer (or where the landlord exercises his right to have the value of the dwelling-house re-determined by the district valuer), the relevant event .\n(3) In subsection (2)(b) “ the relevant event ” means—\n(a) where a review notice was capable of being served under section 128A in relation to the determination or re-determination but no such notice was served during the period permitted by that section, the service of the notice under section 128(5) stating the effect of the determination or re-determination,\n(b) where a review notice was served under section 128A in relation to the determination or re-determination and section 128B(3) applied, the service on the tenant of the notice under section 128B(3), and\n(c) where a review notice was served under section 128A in relation to the determination or re-determination and section 128B(5) applied, the service of the notice under section 128B(7).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 125D, 125E inserted (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 105(1); S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b) (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 125D(2) repealed (22.9.2008 for E. and otherwise prosp.) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 321(1), 325(2), Sch. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 125D(2)(b) substituted (22.9.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 306(3), 325(2) (with s. 306(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 125D(3) inserted (22.9.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 306(4), 325(2) (with s. 306(12))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/125D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}