14. In section 136(1) (change of secure tenant after notice claiming right to buy) after subsection (1) insert—
“(1A) Where, after an assured tenant (“the former tenant”) has given a notice claiming the right to acquire, another person (“the new tenant”) becomes—
(a)the assured tenant by virtue of section 17 of the Housing Act 1988 (succession by spouse on tenant’s death), or
(b)the assured tenant under a statutory tenancy arising by virtue of section 5 of the Housing Act 1988 (statutory assured tenancy on the end of fixed term tenancy),
the new tenant shall be in the same position as if the notice had been given by him and he had been the tenant at the time it was given.”.
Section 136(2) was substituted and subsections (3), (4) and (5) repealed by section 105(2) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.