SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part IGeneral Amendments

The Housing Act 1985

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In section 155 of that Act (repayment of discount on early disposal) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

3A

Where a secure tenant has served on his landlord an operative notice of delay, as defined in section 153A,—

a

the three years referred to in subsection (2) shall begin from a date which precedes the date of the conveyance of the freehold or grant of the lease by a period equal to the time (or, if there is more than one such notice, the aggregate of the times) during which, by virtue of section 153B, any payment of rent falls to be taken into account in accordance with subsection (3) of that section; and

b

any reference in subsection (3) (other than paragraph (a) thereof) to the acquisition of the tenant’s initial share shall be construed as a reference to a date which precedes that acquisition by the period referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection.