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(1)Where a secure tenant has served on his landlord an operative notice of delay, this section applies to any payment of rent which is made on or after the default date or, as the case may be, the date of the service of the notice and before the occurrence of any of the following events (and, if more than one event occurs, before the earliest to occur)—
(a)the service by the landlord of a counter notice under section 153A(3);
(b)the date on which the landlord makes to the tenant the grant required by section 138 or, as the case may be, section 150;
F2( c ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d)the date on which the tenant withdraws or is deemed to have withdrawn the notice claiming to exercise the right to buy or, as the case may be, the notice claiming to exercise the [F3right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms]; and
(e)the date on which the tenant ceases to be entitled to exercise the right to buy.
(2)Except where this section ceases to apply on a date determined under [F3paragraph (d) or (e)] of subsection (1), so much of any payment of rent to which this section applies as does not consist of—
(a)a sum due on account of rates [F4or council tax], or
(b)a service charge (as defined in section 621A),
shall be treated not only as a payment of rent but also as a payment on account by the tenant which is to be taken into account in accordance with subsection (3).
(3)In a case where subsection (2) applies, the amount which, apart from this section, would be the purchase price or, as the case may be, the [F3the tenant’s initial payment] shall be reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate of—
(a)the total of any payments on account treated as having been paid by the tenant by virtue of subsection (2); and
(b)if those payments on account are derived from payments of rent referable to a period of more than twelve months, a sum equal to the appropriate percentage of the total referred to in paragraph (a).
(4) In subsection (3)(b) “ the appropriate percentage ” means 50 per cent. or such other percentage as may be prescribed. ]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 153A, 153B inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 124
F2S. 153B(1)(c) repealed (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(2), Sch. 22; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2 , 4(b), Sch. 2 (with saving in Sch. 1 paras. 4(1), 10).
F3Words in S. 153B substituted (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(1), Sch. 21 para. 14; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b) (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1)).
F4words in s. 153B(2)(a) inserted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/651, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 14.
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