The Housing (Extension of Right to Buy) Order 1987

Consequential, supplementary and transitional provisions

4.—(1) In a case where a secure tenant, at a time when this Order did not apply, has served, in relation to the dwelling-house, a notice under section 122(1) (tenant’s notice claiming to exercise right to buy), this Order does not apply while that notice remains in force.

(2) Where, in pursuance of Part V as modified by this Order, a secure tenant has served a notice under section 122(1) (notice claiming to exercise right to buy) then in the event of the interest of the landlord, an intermediate landlord or the freeholder in the dwelling-house passing to a person not being an authority or body to which article 3(2) applies, the freeholder shall as soon as practicable serve on the tenant a notice in writing telling him that he is no longer entitled to acquire the freehold of the dwelling-house.