# Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W

(1) This paragraph applies where immediately before the appropriate time any flat falling within sub-paragraph (1A) is let under a secure tenancy or an introductory tenancy or a secure contract (or an introductory standard contract) and either—
(a) the freeholder is the tenant’s immediate landlord, or
(b) the freeholder is a public sector landlord and every intermediate landlord of the flat (as well as the immediate landlord under the secure tenancy or the introductory tenancy or the secure contract (or the introductory standard contract)) is also a public sector landlord.
(1A) A flat falls within this sub-paragraph if—
(a) the freehold of the whole of it is owned by the same person, and
(b) it is contained in the specified premises.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(b) has effect whether any such intermediate landlord, or the immediate landlord under the secure tenancy or the introductory tenancy or the secure contract (or the introductory standard contract), is or is not a qualifying tenant of the flat.
(3) Where this paragraph applies, the nominee purchaser shall grant to the freeholder a lease of the flat in accordance with section 36 and paragraph 4 below.
(4) In this paragraph any reference to a flat includes a reference to a unit (other than a flat) which is used as a dwelling.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/schedule/9/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/schedule-9/paragraph-2
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