In section 40 (application for variation of insurance provisions of lease of dwelling other than a flat) for subsection (4) (which makes provision about long leases) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

“(4)

For the purpose of this section, a long lease shall not be regarded as a long lease of a dwelling if—

(a)

the demised premises consist of three or more dwellings; or

(b)

the lease constitutes a tenancy to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies.

(4A)

Without prejudice to subsection (4), an application under subsection (1) may not be made by a person who is a tenant under a long lease of a dwelling if, by virtue of that lease and one or more other long leases of dwellings, he is also a tenant from the same landlord of at least two other dwellings.

(4B)

For the purposes of subsection (4A), any tenant of a dwelling who is a body corporate shall be treated as a tenant of any other dwelling held from the same landlord which is let under a long lease to an associated company, as defined in section 20(1).”