Restriction on exercising the right to buy and the right to acquire

5 Exception to the restriction on exercising the right to acquire

(1) The Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) is amended as follows.

(2) After section 16B (restriction on exercising the right to acquire), insert—

“16C Exception to restriction on exercising the right to acquire

(1) This section applies in respect of a dwelling (the “exempted dwelling”) if—

(a) after the relevant date, the court has ordered a person to give up possession of a dwelling,

(b) the order is made—

(i) on any of the grounds set out in Parts 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1985 (c. 68) (discretionary grounds for possession of dwelling let under secure tenancy), or

(ii) on Ground 9 in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50) (possession of dwelling let under assured tenancy on grounds that there is suitable alternative accommodation),

(c) the person becomes the tenant of the exempted dwelling, and

(d) the exempted dwelling is suitable alternative accommodation for the purposes of the order.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, amend this section by making provision for further circumstances in which this section applies in respect of a dwelling.

(3) Regulations under subsection (2) may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.”