Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993

157 Other amendments of 1987 Act

(1) In section 17 of the 1987 Act (management of local authority houses), in subsection (1), the words “and exercised by” shall cease to have effect.

(2) In section 61 of that Act (secure tenant’s right to purchase), in subsection (10), subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (b) shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section 62 of that Act (price)—

(a) in subsection (3)(b), the words “continuous” and “immediately” shall cease to have effect;

(b) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

“(3A) There shall be deducted from the discount an amount equal to any previous discount, or the aggregate of any previous discounts, received by the appropriate person on any previous purchase of a house by any of these persons from a landlord who is a person specified in subsection (11) of section 61 or prescribed in an order made under that subsection, reduced by any amount of such previous discount recovered by such a landlord.”;

(c) in subsection (4)—

(i) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—

“(a) the “appropriate person” is whoever of—

(i) the tenant; or

(ii) the tenant’s spouse if living with him at the date of service of the application to purchase; or

(iii) a deceased spouse if living with the tenant at the time of death; or

(iv) any joint tenant who is a joint purchaser of the house,

has the longer or longest such occupation;” and

(ii) at the end there shall be inserted— “and, for the purposes of subsection (3A), the “appropriate person” is any of the persons mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv) of paragraph (a).

(4) In section 248 of that Act (repairs grants), the proviso to subsection (5) shall be amended as follows—

(a) after the words “shall not apply” there shall be inserted “(a)”; and

(b) at the end there shall be added—

“(b) in relation to an application for a repairs grant in respect of works intended to reduce exposure to radon gas.”