{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/985",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-landlords-additional-purposes-or-objects-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Priority of mortgages",
  "text": "(1) Where–\n(a) a social landlord provides an equity percentage loan secured by an equity mortgage to assist a person (“the mortgagor”) to acquire a house for his own occupation; and\n(b) a qualifying lending institution also provides a loan secured by a mortgage to that mortgagor to assist him to acquire that house,\nthe mortgage mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) shall have priority immediately after the mortgage mentioned in sub-paragraph (b).\n(2) Where the mortgagor, for the purpose of enabling him to carry out any improvement to the house in question, and with the written consent of the social landlord, acquires a further advance secured by the mortgage mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), the priority of that mortgage shall remain unchanged.\n(3) For the purposes of this article –\n“agreed percentage” means a percentage agreed between the social landlord and the mortgagor;\n“equity mortgage” is a mortgage under which, in consideration for an equity percentage loan, the mortgagor agrees that on the loan becoming repayable he shall pay to the social landlord an amount which is equal to the agreed percentage multiplied by the value of the house, as determined in accordance with the terms of the mortgage, at the date on which the loan becomes repayable;\n“equity percentage loan” is a loan which is equal to the agreed percentage multiplied by the value of the house as determined by the social landlord when the loan is made;\n“qualifying lending institution” means—\n(a)the Corporation;\n(aa) the Homes and Communities Agency;\n(c)a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits or to effect or carry out contracts of insurance; ...\n(d)...\n...\n(4) The definition of “qualifying lending institution” in paragraph (3) must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section; and\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(3) substituted (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 581(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 revoked (E.) (1.4.2010) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/671), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2); S.I. 2010/862, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(3) inserted (1.12.2008) by The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2831), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 9 (with Sch. 3, Sch. 4 paras. 5, 6); S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The EEA Passport Rights (Amendment, etc., and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1149), reg. 1(3), Sch. para. 46 (with reg. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 3(4) inserted (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 581(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 3(4)(b)(c) omitted (E.) (5.11.2005) by virtue of The Social Landlords (Additional Purposes or Objects) (Amendment) (England) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2863), arts. 1(1), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 19.4.1999, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/985/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:27.630540+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."
}