(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 ”.