§ Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question proposed [7 November] on Lords amendment No. 129.
§ Which Question was, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords amendments Nos. 130 to 134 agreed to. [Some with Special Entry].
§ Lords amendment: No. 271, insert the following new clause—Removal of exception to the right to buy—
§ ". —(1) In Schedule 5 to the Housing Act 1985 (exceptions to the right to buy) paragraph 11 (dwelling-house particularly suitable for persons of pensionable age etc.) shall apply to a dwelling-house as thereunder determined by the Secretary of State only where such a dwelling-house was completed before the date of Royal Assent, or such other date thereafter as the Secretary of State may specify.
§ (2) The operation of subsection (1) above in relation to paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Housing Act 1985 does not affect the operation of that paragraph in any case where the tenant's notice claiming to exercise the right to buy was served before the repeal comes into force unless, at that time, no notice in response had been served under section 124 of that Act (landlord's notice admitting or denying the right to buy).
§ (3) For the purposes of subsection (2) above, no account shall be taken of any steps taken under section 177 of the Housing Act 1985 (amendment or withdrawal and re-service of notice to correct mistakes)."
§ Read a Second time.
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§ The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Michael Howard)I beg to move, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment.
§ Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Dean)With this it will be convenient to discuss also the following: Government amendment (a) in lieu of the Lords amendment, after clause 146, insert the following new clause—