Part 6Other provisions about housing

Chapter 2Disposals attracting discounts other than under right to buy

Disposals by registered social landlords

202Right of assured tenant to acquire dwelling not affected by collective enfranchisement

(1)

Section 16 of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) (right of assured tenant of registered social landlord to acquire dwelling) is amended as follows.

(2)

After subsection (3) insert—

“(3A)

In subsection (3)(a) the reference to the freehold interest in the dwelling includes a reference to such an interest in the dwelling as is held by the landlord under a lease granted in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (mandatory leaseback to former freeholder on collective enfranchisement).”

(3)

The amendment made by subsection (2) applies in relation to the right conferred by section 16 as follows—

(a)

it applies for the purposes of any exercise of that right on or after the day on which this section comes into force, and

(b)

it so applies whether the lease granted in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 was granted on or after that day or before it.