Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Housing (Right to Buy Delay Procedure) (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1989 which prescribe the forms (and particulars to be contained in forms) relating to sections 153A and 153B of the Housing Act 1985. Those sections make provision for the consequences of delays by landlords in dealing with claims to exercise the right to buy or the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms under Part V of that Act.
The Regulations repeal form RTB5 (initial notice of delay for shared ownership leases) and amend the other forms, subject to the savings in regulation 3. They are consequential on the introduction of the right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms and the abolition of the right to a shared ownership lease by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.