18. In section 136 (change of secure tenant after notice claiming right to buy)—
(a)after subsection (1) insert the following subsections—
“(1A) On becoming aware of the change of secure tenant the landlord shall forthwith notify its landlord in writing of this fact.
(1B) An intermediate landlord so notified shall, in turn, similarly notify its immediate landlord.”; and
(b)in subsection (2)(1), for the word “landlord's” substitute the word “freeholder's”.
Subsection (2) was substituted by section 105(2) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.