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Lords amendment: No. 15. in page 11, line 38, leave out:
or the right to a mortgage
§ Mr. StanleyI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. StanleyThese are procedural amendments to clause 13, which governs what happens when there is a change of secure tenant after the service of a notice claiming the right to buy.
When the change of tenancy takes place, the landlord may already have served on the former tenant a notice under clause 10 telling him the price to which he is entitled and, among other things, about his right to a mortgage. The former tenant may even have served a notice under clause 12 claiming the right to a mortgage. The size of the mortgage to which the new tenant is entitled will depend on his own circumstances, and not the former tenant's.
Amendment No. 16 therefore provides that, where a notice has already been served under clause 10, a new form is to be sent to the new tenant for him to give details of his own financial circumstances if he wishes to exercise his right to a mortgage. The new tnenant would then have the normal three months to fill in and return the form.
Amendment No. 15 deletes words rendered unnecessary by amendment No. 16.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendments Nos. 16 to 22 agreed to.