Part II PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSING

Chapter IENGLAND AND WALES

Other rights of secure tenants

I1124 Existing rights with respect to disposals by housing action trusts.

1

In subsection (2)(b) of section 79 of the M1Housing Act 1988 (disposals by housing action trusts), the words “in accordance with section 84 below” shall be omitted.

2

For subsection (1) of section 84 of that Act (provisions applicable to disposals of dwelling-houses let on secure tenancies) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

1

The provisions of this section apply in any case where—

a

a housing action trust proposes to make a disposal of one or more houses let on secure tenancies which would result in a person who, before the disposal, is a secure tenant of the trust becoming, after the disposal, the tenant of another person, and

b

that other person is not a local housing authority or other local authority.

3

In subsection (7) of that section—

a

after the words “a disposal to which this section applies,” there shall be inserted the words “ or a disposal which would be such a disposal if subsection (1)(b) above were omitted, ”; and

b

after the words “such further consultation” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, such consultation ”.

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