{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/179",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Extension of Right to Buy) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe 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–\n(a) the dwelling-house is a house (i.e. not a flat),\n(b) the secure tenant’s landlord has a lease of the dwelling-house, and\n(c) the freeholder and each intermediate landlord is an authority or body specified in article 3(2) of that Order,\nand 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).\nParagraphs 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/179/note",
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  },
  "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."
}