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(1)This section applies where the landlord serves a notice under subsection (2) of section 7 rejecting a counter-offer but the notice—
(a)states that it constitutes a fresh offer by the landlord to dispose of an estate or interest in the property specified in the offer notice under section 5(2)(a) which may be accepted by the requisite majority of qualifying tenants of the constituent flats;
(b)contains particulars of the estate or interest in that property which he proposes to dispose of, the consideration required by him for the disposal and the other principal terms of the disposal; and
(c)specifies a period within which the offer may be accepted as mentioned in paragraph (a) above.
(2)If, within the period specified in the landlord’s notice under subsection (1)(c) above, a notice is served on the landlord by the requisite majority of qualifying tenants of the constituent flats informing him that the persons by whom it is served accept the offer contained in the landlord’s notice, section 6(1) and the other provisions of section 6 shall apply to the landlord as if an acceptance notice had been served on him as mentioned in section 6(1)(b), except that—
(a)any reference to the protected interest shall be read as a reference to any such estate or interest as is specified in the landlord’s notice in pursuance of subsection (1)(b) above; and
(b)any reference in section 6(3) to the offer notice shall be read as a reference to the landlord’s notice under subsection (1) above; and
(c)where the notice served on the landlord in pursuance of this subsection is served after the end of the period specified under section 5(2)(c), section 6(2) and (3) shall have effect as if the period specified under section 5(2)(d) began with the date of service of that notice.
(3)If, within the period specified in the landlord’s notice under subsection (1)(c) above, no notice is served on the landlord as mentioned in subsection (2) above and subsection (4) below does not apply, the landlord may, during the period of 12 months beginning with the end of that period dispose of any such estate or interest as is specified in the landlord’s notice under subsection (1)(b) above to such person as he thinks fit, but subject to the following restrictions, namely—
(a)that the consideration required by him for the disposal must not be less than that specified in his notice under subsection (1), and
(b)that the other terms on which the disposal is made must, so far as relating to any matters covered by the terms specified in that notice, correspond to those terms.
(4)If, within the period so specified in the landlord’s notice, a notice is served on him by the requisite majority of qualifying tenants of the constituent flats stating that the persons by whom it is served are making him a further counter-offer for the acquisition by them of such estate or interest in the property specified in the offer notice under section 5(2)(a) as is specified in their notice, the provisions of subsections (2) to (5) of section 7 and the provisions of this section (including this subsection) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, in relation to any such notice as they apply in relation to a notice served as mentioned in subsection (2)(b) of section 7.
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