Paragraph 1

Section 139 of the 1990 Act (action by council on whom purchase notice is served) shall be modified as follows.

Subsection (1)(b) shall have effect as if, after the words “response notice”, there were inserted “or the Urban Regeneration Agency”.

Subsection (1)(c) shall have effect as if for the words “have not found any other local authority or statutory undertakers who will agree” there were substituted “no other local authority or statutory undertakers, nor the Urban Regeneration Agency, have agreed”.

Subsection (3) shall have effect as if after the word “undertakers”, there were inserted “or the Urban Regeneration Agency”.