{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1993/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1993/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2240",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Extension of Right to Buy) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-extension-of-right-to-buy-order-1993",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Extension of the right to buy",
  "text": "(1) Where there are in a dwelling-house let on a secure tenancy one or more interests which are interests to which this article applies, and the dwelling-house is a house, Part V (the right to buy) has effect with the modifications specified in the Schedule to this Order.\n(2) This article applies to an interest held by—\na local authority,\na new town corporation,\na housing action trust,\nan urban development corporation,\nthe Development Board for Rural Wales,\nthe Corporation, or\na registered housing association, other than one excepted from the right to buy by Schedule 5, paragraph 1 (charities), 2 (co-operatives) or 3 (associations which have not received grant),\nwhich is immediately superior to the interest of the landlord or to another interest to which this article applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 107 of Schedule 17 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2839",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Housing Corporation Functions (Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2240/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:48.847743+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."
}