{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-prescribed-form-right-to-a-mortgage-regulations-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-prescribed-form-right-to-a-mortgage-regulations-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1710",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Form: Right to a Mortgage) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-buy-prescribed-form-right-to-a-mortgage-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe right to buy is provided for in Part V of the Housing Act 1985 and secure tenants who have the right to buy can also claim a mortgage from their landlord. These Regulations prescribe the form of notice to be used by secure tenants when claiming the right to a mortgage (regulation 2). This form replaces that prescribed by the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1980 which are revoked (regulation 3).\nA notice claiming the right to a mortgage served before 17th December 1992 is not invalidated by these Regulations if it is in the form required by the 1980 Regulations (regulation 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1710/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:19:17.783477+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."
}