Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Housing (Extension of Right to Buy) Order 1987 extends the right to buy under Part V of the Housing Act 1985 by enabling a secure tenant to buy the freehold of his dwelling-house in cases where–
the dwelling-house is a house (i.e. not a flat),
the secure tenant’s landlord has a lease of the dwelling-house, and
the freeholder and each intermediate landlord is an authority or body specified in article 3(2) of that Order,
and makes modifications to Part V in those cases. This Order makes further modifications to Part V as it applies in those cases (except in the transitional case described in article 3 of the Order).
Paragraphs 1 and 5 of the Schedule to the Order make modifications relating to applications for determinations under paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Housing Act 1985 (exception to the right to buy: certain dwelling-houses for persons of pensionable age). The modifications made by the remaining paragraphs of the Schedule to the Order concern cases where a tenant’s exercise of the right to buy has been delayed by the freeholder, an intermediate landlord or the landlord.