The London Authorities (Transfer of Housing Estates etc.) (No. 1) Order 1972

Covenants affecting property

8.  Unless the Greater London Council and the transferee authority otherwise agree, section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (which implies certain words in conveyances of land, subject to the terms of the conveyance and the provisions therein contained) shall have effect—

(a) in respect of any property transferred by article 3; and

(b) in respect of any property, being property vested in the Greater London Council, which is affected by the said transfer,

as if the property described in (a) and (b) respectively had been the subject of a conveyance on the relevant date.

9.—(1) This article applies to any land within the extent of an area of housing accommodation transferred by article 3, being land in respect of which the Greater London Council have powers under section 151 of the Housing Act 1957 to enforce covenants entered into on the sale or exchange of land.

(2) In respect of any land to which this article applies—

(a) the Greater London Council shall consult with the transferee authority before exercising their powers under the said section 151;

(b) the transferee authority may require the Greater London Council to exercise the said powers in any case where such exercise is requisite in the interests of the area of housing accommodation within the extent of which the land is situated.

(3) The Greater London Council shall notify the transferee authority of any land to which this article applies and provide sufficient particulars of the covenants to which the said section 151 relates.

10.  Any covenant (not being a covenant affected by article 9) which would be enforceable by the Greater London Council immediately before the relevant date in respect of land within the extent of an area of housing accommodation transferred by article 3, being land which was sold or exchanged by the Greater London Council or by the London County Council and, immediately before such sale or exchange, was held by them for the purposes of the Housing Act 1957 or of any Act re-enacted by that Act, shall be of full force and effect in favour of the transferee authority.