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21 Schedule 10, page 84, line 1, at end insert—
(" . Subsections (4) and (4A) of section 3 of the Housing Act 1980 (meaning of "house", "flat", "dwelling-house" etc.) shall have effect as if any reference to the right to buy included a reference to the right to be granted a shared ownership lease.
. Section 4(3) of that Act (joint tenants and members of family occupying dwelling-house otherwise than as joint tenants) shall have effect as if the reference to Chapter I of Part I of that Act included a reference to Part I of this Act.
.—(1) In section 5(2) of that Act (notice claiming to exercise the right to buy) for the words "three years" there shall be substituted the words "two years".
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(2) The amendment made by sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply where the landlord's notice under section 5(1) of the 1980 Act was served before the commencement of Part I of this Act.
. At the end of section 6 of that Act (purchase price) there shall be added the following subsection—
(6) Where the secure tenant's tenancy has at any time been assigned by virtue of section 37A of this Act, the persons specified in subsection (5) above shall not include any person who under that tenancy was a secure tenant before the assignment.".")
§ The Commons insisted on their amendment to the Lords amendment 21 in:
§ Line 11, to leave out ("In section 5(2)') and insert ("After subsection (1) of section 5")
§ for the following Reason:
§ 22 Because the amendment is needed in view of the amendment proposed by the Commons in line 12 of the said Lords amendment.
§ Lord BellwinMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth not insist on their disagreement to the Commons amendment to the Lords Amendment No. 21 on which the Commons have insisted for the Reason numbered 22.
§ Moved, That this House doth not insist on the said Amendment.—(Lord Bellwin.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.