Mobile Homes Act 1975

1 Duty to offer agreements

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, where the owner of a protected site proposes to permit—

(a) any person to station a mobile home on that site ; or

(b) any person who has acquired a mobile home which is stationed on that site to continue to station it on the site,

and, in either case, that person has notified the owner in writing that he intends to occupy the mobile home as his only or main residence, it shall be the duty of the owner of the protected site before that person stations the mobile home on the site or begins to occupy the mobile home, as the case may be, to offer to enter into a written agreement with him in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of this Act:

Provided that—

(i) for the period of three months following the commencement of this Act the owner shall be deemed to have complied with this subsection if the offer to enter into the agreement is made within that period ;

(ii) this subsection shall not apply in the case of a person to whom an agreement which complies with section 3 of this Act has been assigned.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, where at the commencement of this Act any person is permitted to station a mobile home on a protected site and occupies it as his only or main residence, it shall be the duty of the owner of the protected site within the period of three months following the commencement of this Act to offer to enter into a written agreement with him in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of this Act.

(3) Where any person occupies a mobile home which is stationed on a protected site and no duty is imposed on the owner of the site under the foregoing provisions of this section by reason only that the mobile home which he occupies is not his only or main residence, then, if the mobile home becomes his only or main residence and he so notifies the owner of the site in writing, it shall be the duty of the owner within the period of three months following the date of such notification to offer to enter into a written agreement with him in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of this Act.

(4) An owner shall not be deemed to have offered to enter into a written agreement under the foregoing provisions of this section unless at the time of the offer he supplies the person to whom the offer is made with a draft of the agreement so offered.

(5) Nothing in this section shall require an owner of a protected site to offer to enter into an agreement with any person who occupies a mobile home on the site by reason only of the suspension of an order made by the court by virtue of section 4 of the Act of 1968.