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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/28",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where immediately before the appropriate time any flat falling within sub-paragraph (1A) is let by a housing association under a tenancy other than a secure tenancy or secure contract and—\n(a) the housing association is the freeholder, and\n(b) the tenant is not a qualifying tenant of the flat.\n(1A) A flat falls within this sub-paragraph if—\n(a) the freehold of the whole of it is owned by the same person, and\n(b) it is contained in the specified premises.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, the nominee purchaser shall grant to the freeholder (that is to say, the housing association) a lease of the flat in accordance with section 36 and paragraph 4 below.\n(3) In this paragraph any reference to a flat includes a reference to a unit (other than a flat) which is used as a dwelling.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 3(1) substituted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 107, Sch. 10 para. 20(4); S.I. 1996/2212, art. 2(2) (with savings in Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 3(1) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 22(5)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 3(1A) inserted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52, s. 107, Sch. 10 para. 20(4); S.I. 1996/2212, art. 2(2) (with savings in Sch.)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002"
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/22",
      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/schedule/9/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:01.928287+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."
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