(1)This section provides for the consultation exercise that a local housing authority must carry out before it may apply to the Welsh Ministers for a direction suspending the right to buy and related rights.
(2)The consultation exercise must seek views on whether there is a need for the authority to apply for such a direction.
(3)The persons to be consulted are—
(a)each social housing provider—
(i)which appears to the authority to be a landlord of a dwelling-house situated in the authority’s area (but the authority need not consult itself), and
(ii)which the authority considers would be affected if its application for a direction is granted;
(b)any body or bodies appearing to the authority to represent the interests of tenants of dwelling-houses within the authority’s area where—
(i)the landlords of those dwelling-houses are social housing providers, and
(ii)the authority considers that the tenants of those dwelling-houses would be affected if its application for a direction is granted;
(c)any other local housing authority whose area is adjacent to the area to which it is proposed that the direction is to apply, and
(d)such other persons as the authority considers appropriate.