SCHEDULES
I1SCHEDULE 10 ACQUISITION OF INTERESTS FROM LOCAL AUTHORITIES ETC.
Disapplication of provisions relating to disposals by local authorities etc.
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1
It is hereby declared that nothing in any of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2) (which impose requirements as to consent or consultation or other restrictions in relation to disposals falling within those provisions) applies to any disposal of a freehold or leasehold interest in any premises which is made in pursuance of this Chapter.
2
The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—
a
F1b
sections 9 and 42 of the Housing Act 1996 and section 9 of the Housing Associations Act 1985 (disposals by registered social landlords and other housing associations);.
c
section 79(1) and (2) of the Housing Act 1988 (disposals by housing action trusts) and section 81 of that Act (certain subsequent disposals); and
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Provisions relating to secure tenants following leaseback
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1
This paragraph applies where a lease is granted to a public sector landlord in pursuance of paragraph 2 of Schedule 9.
2
Where—
a
immediately before the appropriate time the public sector landlord was the immediate landlord under a secure tenancy F3or an introductory tenancy of a flat contained in the demised premises, and
b
that tenancy continues in force after the grant of the lease referred to in sub-paragraph (1),
the tenant shall be deemed to have continued without interruption as tenant of the landlord under the secure tenancy F3or, as the case may be, the introductory tenancy, despite the disposal of the landlord’s interest which immediately preceded the grant of the lease referred to in that sub-paragraph.
3
Where—
a
immediately before the appropriate time a person was a successor in relation to a secure tenancy F4or an introductory tenancy of a flat contained in the demised premises, and
b
that person is, in connection with the grant of the lease referred to in sub-paragraph (1), granted a new secure tenancy of that flat which is a tenancy for a term certain,
then for the purposes of sections 87 to 90 of the M3Housing Act 1985 (succession on death of tenant) that person shall also be a successor in relation to the new tenancy.
4
Where—
a
immediately before the appropriate time a person was the tenant under a secure tenancy F5or an introductory tenancy of a flat contained in the demised premises, and
b
that person is, in connection with the grant of the lease referred to in sub-paragraph (1), granted a new secure tenancy F5or introductory tenancy of that flat,
then, for the purpose of determining whether either of the conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (5) is satisfied, the new tenancy shall not be regarded as a new letting of the flat but shall instead be regarded as a continuation of the secure tenancy or introductory tenancy referred to in paragraph (a) above.
5
Those conditions are—
a
the condition specified in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Housing Act 1985 (exception to the right to buy in case of letting in connection with employment); and
b
the condition specified in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of paragraph 11 of that Schedule (exception to the right to buy in case of letting for occupation by person of pensionable age etc.).
6
In this paragraph—
a
b
any reference to a flat includes a reference to a unit (other than a flat) which is used as a dwelling.
7
In this paragraph—
a
“the appropriate time” and “the demised premises” have the same meaning as in Schedule 9; and
Sch. 10 wholly in force at 1.11.1993 see s. 188(2) and S.I. 1993/2134, art. 5