Housing Act 1996

4 (1) Section 10 (premises with a resident landlord) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b)—

(a) for “the freeholder, or an adult member of the freeholder’s” there shall be substituted “ a relevant person, or an adult member of a relevant person’s ”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (i), after “premises” there shall be inserted “ which is a qualifying flat ”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (a)—

(i) for “freeholder” there shall be substituted “ relevant person ”, and

(ii) after “Chapter”, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “ , or, as the case may be, the amendments of this Chapter made by the Housing Act 1996, ”, and

(b) in paragraph (b)—

(i) for “freeholder, or an adult member of the freeholder’s” there shall be substituted “ relevant person, or an adult member of that person’s ”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (i), after “premises” there shall be inserted “ which is a qualifying flat ”.

(4) In subsection (4)—

(a) for “freehold interest” there shall be substituted “ interest of a relevant person ”, and

(b) for “the freeholder” there shall be substituted “ a relevant person ”.

(5) After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(4A) For the purposes of this section a person is a relevant person, in relation to any premises, if he owns the freehold of the whole or any part of the premises.”.

(6) In subsection (6) there shall be inserted at the end—

““qualifying flat”, in relation to a relevant person, or an adult member of a relevant person’s family, means a flat the freehold of the whole of which is owned by the relevant person.”.