Regulation 19 Amendment of the Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013I1

In regulation 2 of the Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013 (Interpretation), at the appropriate place insert—

““gypsies and travellers” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(4) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act;”.

In regulation 7 of the Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013 (Existing agreements: grounds on which site owner may apply for a refusal order), after regulation 7(2) insert—

“7(3) Where a site is owned by a private registered provider of social housing, as defined by section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008^f1, there is an additional prescribed ground for the purposes of paragraphs 7B(7) and 8B(7) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act, where the provider has a policy in place for the allocation of pitches to gypsies and travellers, which a sale or gift to the proposed occupier would contravene”.

Regulation 11 of the Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013 (period prescribed for the purposes of section 2C(3) of the Act) is revoked.