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96 Application to exercise right.E+W
(1)An application claiming to exercise the right conferred by this Part—
(a)shall be made in the prescribed form to the public sector landlord concerned; and
(b)shall specify and be accompanied by a plan which shows—
(i)the buildings proposed to be acquired by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 93 above; and
(ii)the property proposed to be acquired by virtue of paragraph (b) of that subsection.
(2)Where an application claiming to exercise the right conferred by this Part specifies, as a building proposed to be acquired by virtue of section 93(1)(a) above, a building containing a dwelling-house which is subject to an approved co-operative management agreement, the application—
(a)shall specify all the buildings which contain dwelling-houses subject to the agreement and in which the public sector landlord has the fee simple estate; and
(b)shall not specify (by virtue of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 93 above) any building which contains dwelling-houses if none of them is subject to the agreement.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2) above, an approved co-operative management agreement is an agreement—
(a)which is made with the approval of the Secretary of State under section 27 of the Housing Act 1985, either as originally enacted or as substituted by section 10 of the Housing and Planning Act 1986; and
(b)under which the body exercising functions of the local housing authority is a society, company or body of trustees approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of subsection (2) above.
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