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4(1)Section 137 of the Housing Act 1985 (change of landlord after notice claiming right to buy or right to a mortgage) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)Make the existing provision subsection (1) and in it after “all parties shall” insert “, subject to subsection (2),”.
(3)After that subsection insert—
“(2)If the circumstances after the disposal differ in any material respect, as for example where—
(a)the interest of the disponee in the dwelling-house after the disposal differs from that of the disponor before the disposal, or
(b)the right to a mortgage becomes exercisable against the Housing Corporation rather than the landlord, orvice versa, or
(c)any of the provisions of Schedule 5 (exceptions to the right to buy) becomes or ceases to be applicable,
all those concerned shall, as soon as practicable after the disposal, take all such steps (whether by way of amending or withdrawing and re-serving any notice or extending any period or otherwise) as may be requisite for the purpose of securing that all parties are, as nearly as may be, in the same position as they would have been if those circumstances had obtained before the disposal.”.
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