The Housing (Preservation of Right to Buy) Regulations 1993

12.  In section 136 (change of qualifying person after notice claiming right to buy)—

(a) for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) Where, after a qualifying person has given a notice claiming the right to buy, a qualifying successor becomes the qualifying person in relation to the qualifying dwelling-house, the qualifying successor shall be in the same position as if the notice had been given by him and he had been the qualifying person at the time it was given.”;

(b) in subsection (2)(1) for “former tenant” substitute “former qualifying person”; and

(c) in subsection (6) for “new tenant” substitute “new qualifying person”.

(1)

Section 136(2) was substituted by section 105(2) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.