HC Deb 11 May 2004 vol 421 cc257-8

  1. (1) Section 16 of the Housing Act 1996 (c.52) (right of assured tenant of registered social landlord to acquire dwelling) is amended as follows.
  2. (2) After subsection (3)insert—

(3A) In subsection (3)(a) the reference to the freehold interest in the dwelling includes a reference to such an interest in the dwelling as is held by the landlord under a lease granted in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (mandatory leaseback to former freeholder on collective enfranchisement). (3) The amendment made by subsection (2) applies in relation to the right conferred by section 16 as follows—

  1. (a) it applies for the purposes of any exercise of that right on or after the day on which this section comes into force, and
  2. (b) it so applies whether the lease granted in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 was granted on or after that day or before it.'.—[Paul Clark.]

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.

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