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(1)The following provisions of this Part down to section 51 (restrictions on, and provision of information about, services charges) apply where—
(a)a house has been disposed of by a public sector authority,
(b)the conveyance or grant, or, in the case of an assignment of a lease, the lease, enabled the vendor or lessor to recover from the purchaser or lessee a service charge, and
(c)the house is not a flat within the meaning of sections 18 to 30 of the [1985 c. 70.] Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (which make provision for flats corresponding to that made by the following provisions of this Act).
(2)In subsection (1)(a)—
(a)the reference to disposal is to the conveyance of the freehold or the grant or assignment of a long lease (that is, a lease creating a long tenancy as defined in section 115); and
(b)“public sector authority” means—
a local authority,
a new town corporation,
an urban development corporation,
the Development Board for Rural Wales,
the Housing Corporation, or
a registered housing association.
(3)The following provisions—
section 170 (power of Secretary of State to given assistance in connection with legal proceedings), and
section 181 (jurisdiction of county court),
apply to proceedings and questions arising under this section and sections 46 to 51 as they apply to proceedings and questions arising under Part V (the right to buy).
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