38. In section 153A(1) (tenant’s notices of delay)—
(a)in subsection (1)—
(i)for the words “his landlord” substitute the words “the freeholder, where that notice specifies a case in paragraph (a) or (b) below, and, where that notice specifies the case in paragraph (e), the freeholder, an intermediate landlord or the landlord”,
(ii)in paragraphs (a) and (b), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “the freeholder”,
(iii)in paragraph (a), for the words “the period appropiate under subsection (2)” substitute the words “the period specified in subsection (1)”, and
(iv)in paragraph (e), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “an authority or body on which it is proposed to serve the initial notice of delay”;
(b)in subsection (2), in paragraphs (a) and (b), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “the authority or body on which the initial notice of delay is served”;
(c)in subsection (3)—
(i)for the words “the landlord” in the first place where those words occur substitute the words “the authority or body on which the initial notice of delay was served”,
(ii)in paragraph (a), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “the freeholder”; and
(iii)in paragraph (b), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “the authority or body on which the initial notice of delay was served”; and
(d)in subsection (5)—
(i)in paragraph (b), for the words “the landlord” substitute the words “the authority or body on which the initial notice of delay was served”, and
(ii)for the words “the landlord”, in the second place where those words occur, substitute the words “that authority or body”.
Section 153A was inserted by section 124 of the Housing Act 1988 and amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 21 and Schedule 22 to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.