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

Sch 1 para. 1 words inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 3(2)(a)
Sch 1 para. 2 words inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 3(2)(b)
Sch 1 para. 4 words inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 3(2)(c)(i)
Sch 1 para. 4 word inserted by Housing Measure 2011 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2012 Sch. para. 3(2)(c)(ii)

For section 178 (costs)^f1 substitute—

“Costs

178

An agreement between the landlord and a tenant claiming to exercise the right to acquire is void in so far as it purports to oblige the tenant to bear any part of the costs incurred by the landlord in connection with the tenant’s exercise of that right.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 178 was substituted by paragraph 21 of Schedule 21 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.