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In section 138 (duty of landlord to convey freehold) —

(a)

for subsection (1) substitute —

“(1)

Where a secure tenant has claimed to exercise the right to buy and that right has been established, then, as soon as all matters relating to the grant and to the amount to be advanced on the security of the dwelling-house have been agreed or determined, the freeholder shall make to the tenant a grant of the dwelling-house for an estate in fee simple absolute, in accordance with the following provisions of this Part.”; and

(b)

in subsections (2) and (3), for the references to the landlord substitute references to the freeholder.