§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 4 February 2002,Official Report, column 686W, on police houses, if it is his policy to withdraw the right to buy from a police officer who will be entitled to buy his property on 1 July. [34645]
§ Mr. DenhamWe propose in the Police Reform Bill to remove the Metropolitan Police Authority from the secure tenancy regime: but any secure tenant who has acquired the right to buy at the time of Royal Assent of the Bill will have a three month period of grace to exercise that right.
This will allow any secure tenant who has acquired the right to buy before the day on which the Act is passed and has either served a notice claiming to exercise that right before the Act is passed, or serves such a notice 399W within three months of the Act being passed, to complete the purchase process within the framework of the Housing Act 1985.