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(1)This section applies in relation to any house or block of flats specified in a notice under subsection (2) of section 84 above if—
(a)in the case of a house, the tenant makes representations in accordance with paragraph (f) of subsection (4) of that section to the effect that he wishes to become a tenant of the local housing authority in whose area the house is situated; or
(b)in the case of a block of flats, the majority of the tenants who make representations in accordance with that paragraph make representations to the effect that they wish to become tenants of the local housing authority in whose area the block is situated.
(2)The Secretary of State shall by order provide for the transfer of the house or block of flats from the housing action trust to the local housing authority.
(3) The Secretary of State may also by order transfer from the housing action trust to the local housing authority so much as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate of any property belonging to or usually enjoyed with the house or, as the case may be, the block or any flat contained in it; and for this purpose “ property ” includes chattels of any description and rights and liabilities, whether arising by contract or otherwise.
(4)A transfer of any house, block of flats or other property under this section shall be on such terms, including financial terms, as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and an order under this section may provide that, notwithstanding anything in section 141 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion), any rent or other sum which—
(a)arises under the tenant’s tenancy or any of the tenants’ tenancies, and
(b)falls due before the date of the transfer,
shall continue to be recoverable by the housing action trust to the exclusion of the authority.
(5)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4) above, the financial terms referred to in that subsection may include provision for payments to a local housing authority (as well as or instead of payments by a local housing authority); and the transfer from a housing action trust of any house, block of flats or other property by virtue of this section shall not be taken to give rise to any right to compensation.
(6)In this section—
“ block of flats ” means a building containing two or more flats;
“ common parts ”, in relation to a building containing two or more flats, means any parts of the building which the tenants of the flats are entitled under the terms of their tenancies to use in common with each other;
“ flat ” and “ house ” have the meanings given by section 183 of the Housing Act 1985;
and any reference to a block of flats specified in a notice under section 84(2) above is a reference to a block in the case of which each flat which is let on [F2a tenancy which is a secure contract, a tenancy which is an introductory standard contract,] a secure tenancy [F3or an introductory tenancy] is so specified.
(7)For the purposes of subsection (6) above, a building which contains—
(a)one or more flats which are let, or available for letting, on [F4tenancies which are secure contracts or tenancies which are introductory standard contracts,] secure tenancies [F5or introductory tenancies] by the housing action trust concerned, and
(b)one or more flats which are not so let or so available,
shall be treated as if it were two separate buildings, the one containing the flat or flats mentioned in paragraph (a) above and the other containing the flat or flats mentioned in paragraph (b) above and any common parts.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 84A inserted (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 125(5); S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4 (with savings in Sch. 1 para. 5)
F2Words in s. 84A(6) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 16(13)(a) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 3, 10, 19)
F3Words in s. 84A(6) inserted (12.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/74, art. 2, Sch. para. 6(h)
F4Words in s. 84A(7)(a) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1166), regs. 1(1), 16(13)(b) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/1172, regs. 3, 10, 19)
F5Words in s. 84A(7)(a) inserted (12.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/74, art. 2, Sch. para. 6(i)
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