SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part I General Amendments

The Housing Act 1985

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In section 553 of that Act (effect of repurchase of defective dwellings on certain existing tenancies) in subsection (2)—

a

in paragraph (a) after the words “protected tenancy” there shall be inserted “or an assured tenancy”;

b

at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be added the words “or in accordance with any of Grounds 1, 3, 4 and 5 in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 (notice that possession might be recovered under that ground) or under section 20(1)(c) of that Act (notice served in respect of assured shorthold tenancies); and”; and

c

after paragraph (b) there shall be added—

c

the tenancy is not an assured periodic tenancy which, by virtue of section 39(7) of the Housing Act 1988 (successors under the Rent Act 1977), is an assured shorthold tenancy