Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental Provisions

Miscellaneous

82 Price payable on enfranchisement of leasehold house.

The M1Leasehold Reform Act 1967 shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, as if in section 9(1) (which provides for the price to be paid by a tenant on an enfranchisement under the Act to be calculated on certain assumptions, by reference to a sale of the reversion in the open market by a willing seller) there had been inserted after the words “a willing seller” the words “(with the tenant and members of his family who reside in the house not buying or seeking to buy)”, and as if at the end of section 9(1) there were added the words “The reference in this subsection to members of the tenant’s family shall be construed in accordance with section 7(7) of this Act”;

Provided that this section shall not have effect where the price has been determined (by agreement or otherwise) before the passing of this Act.