§ 19 After Clause 154, insert the following new clause—
§ "Sale to secure tenants of houses provided for persons of pensionable age: Scotland
§ (1) Section 69 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (Secretary of State's power to authorise refusal to sell certain houses provided for persons of pensionable age) shall apply to a dwelling-house 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) Any application under subsection (2) of that section received by the Secretary of State before the date of commencement of this section but in respect of which no offer to sell under section 63 or notice of refusal under section 69(4) of that Act has been served by the landlord by that date shall be treated as if it had never been made."
1247§ 20 The Commons disagreed to the above amendment but proposed the following amendment in lieu thereof—
§
Insert the following new Clause—
'Sale to secure tenants of houses provided for persons of pensionable age: Scotland.
In section 69 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (Secretary of Slate's power to authorise refusal to sell certain houses provided for persons of pensionable age) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection
"(1A) This section applies only to houses first let on a secure tenancy before 1st January 1990.".'.
§ Lord HeskethMy Lords, I beg to move that the House do not insist on their Amendment No. 19 to which the Commons have disagreed and do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 20 in lieu thereof.
§ Moved, That the House do not insist on their Amendment No. 19 to which the Commons have disagreed and do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 20 in lieu thereof. —(Lord Hesketh.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.