SCHEDULE 2MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)

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In section 42 (moratorium on disposal of land), for subsection (3) substitute—

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Consent is not required under this section for—

a

a letting of land under an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy, or what would be an assured tenancy or an assured agricultural occupancy but for any of paragraphs 4 to 8, or paragraph 12(1)(h), or any of paragraphs 12ZA to 12B, of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988;

b

a letting of land under a secure tenancy or what would be a secure tenancy but for any of paragraphs 2 to 12 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1985;

c

a disposal under Part 5 of the Housing Act 1985 (the right to buy) or under the right conferred by section 16 (the right to acquire).