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Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 3 word substituted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(a)
Sch. para. 5 words substituted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(b)(i)
Sch. para. 5 words inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(b)(i)
Sch. para. 5(3) inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(b)(ii)
Sch. para. 5(3) word substituted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(b)(iii)
Sch. para. 38(a)(iii) words added by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 2(2)(c)

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

(a)

for subsection (1)^f1 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 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.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Subsection (1) was partly repealed by Schedule 22 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.