HC Deb 24 June 1980 vol 987 c258

Sir Brandon Rhys Williams accordingly presented a Bill to define a new class of company which occupants of flats in a privately owned mansion block may form with the objects of purchasing and managing the block; to empower the local authority to issue a compulsory purchase order to acquire the block for immediate resale to such a company; to give discretion to the Housing Corporation, where such an order has been made, to certify that the company is competent to purchase and manage the block; and to require the Secretary of State when such a certificate of competence has been issued to confirm the compulsory purchase order within two months; And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 4 July and to be printed.[Bill 227.]