Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 E+W+S Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part I E+W+S General Amendments

The Housing Act 1985 E+W+S

60 E+W+S 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

[F1 (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”].

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 17 Pt. I para. 60(c) repealed (28.2.1997) by 1996 c. 52, ss. 227, 231(4)(b), Sch. 19 Pt. IV; S.I. 1997/225, art. 2 (subject to transitional provisions in Sch.)