a notice of a person’s desire to have the freehold or an extended lease under this Part of this Act of a house comprised in the property shall be of no effect;

for the purposes of any application by the landlord under section 17 above in relation to property comprised in the certificate (whether the application is made by virtue of paragraph (b) above or otherwise), the certificate shall be conclusive that the ground specified in section 17(1) is established.

that the question of giving such a certificate is under consideration by that Minister; and

that if within twenty-one days of the giving of the notice the tenant makes to that Minister representations in writing with respect to that question, they will be considered before the question is determined;

to any local authority, that is to say, the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the City of London, F1. . . any county council, borough council or district council F3F2. . . , any joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, F28any economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, any combined authority established under section 103 of that Act,F41any combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023,F37any fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004,F35... F4F36the London Fire Commissioner, any joint board in which all the constituent authorities are local authorities within this paragraph F5... F6any F29police and crime commissioner and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime ; and

to the Broads Authority; and

to any National Park authority; and

to the F27new towns residuary body and to any development corporation within the meaning of F9the M2New Towns Act 1981; and

to the Development Board for Rural Wales;

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to any university body, that is to say, any university, university college or college of a university, and for this purpose “college of a university” includes, in the case of a university organised on a collegiate basis, a constituent college or other society recognised by the university and, in the case of London University, a college incorporated in the university or a school of the university; and

to F38NHS EnglandF39, any integrated care board,F31... any F12F25Local Health Board, any Special Health AuthorityF32... F20, any National Health Service trust and any NHS foundation trust; and

to any body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking; and

to the National Rivers Authority;

to any body not included above which is a harbour authority within the meaning of the M3Harbours Act 1964 . . . F14, but in respect only of the body’s functions as harbour authority . . . F14.

a housing action trust established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988.

the development or redevelopment of an area defined by a development plan under the F22Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as an area of comprehensive development; or

the treatment as a whole, by development, redevelopment or improvement, or partly by one and partly by another method, of any area in which the property is situated