Part IX Miscellaneous and General
Miscellaneous housing provisions
163 Exchanges between secure and assured tenants.
1
Section 92 of the Housing Act 1985 (assignment of secure tenancies by way of exchange) shall be amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) below.
2
At the end of subsection (1) there shall be added the words “
or to anassured tenant who satisfies the conditions in subsection (2A)
”
.
3
After subsection (2) there shall be inserted the followingsubsection—
2A
The conditions to be satisfied with respect to an assured tenant are—
a
that the landlord under his assured tenancy is either the Housing Corporation, Housing for Wales, a registered housing association or a housing trust which is a charity; and
b
that he intends to assign his assured tenancy to the secure tenant referred to in subsection (1) or to another secure tenant who satisfies the condition in subsection (2).
4
In section 117 of the Housing Act 1985 (index of defined expressions for Part IV) before the entry relating to “cemetery” there shall be inserted—
“
assured tenancy »section 622
”
.