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SCHEDULES

Section 92.

SCHEDULE 3E+W Grounds for Withholding Consent to Assignment by Way of Exchange

[F1Ground 1]E+W

Textual Amendments

[F2The tenant or the proposed assignee is subject to an order of the court for the possession of the dwelling-house of which he is the secure tenant.]

Textual Amendments

Ground 2E+W

Proceedings have been begun for possession of the dwelling-house of which the tenant or the proposed assignee is the secure tenant on one or more of grounds 1 to 6 in Part I of Schedule 2 (grounds on which possession may be ordered despite absence of suitable alternative accommodation), or there has been served on the tenant or the proposed assignee a notice under section 83 [F3or 83ZA ] (notice of proceedings for possession) which specifies one or more of those grounds and is still in force.

Textual Amendments

[F4Ground 2ZAE+W

Textual Amendments

F4Sch. 3 Ground 2ZA inserted (20.10.2014 for E., 21.10.2014 for W.) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), ss. 100(2), 185(1)(2)(c)(3)(b) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2014/2590, art. 2(e); S.I. 2014/2830, art. 2(e)

Proceedings have been begun for possession of the dwelling-house, of which the tenant or the proposed assignee is the secure tenant, under section 84A (absolute ground for possession for anti-social behaviour), or there has been served on the tenant or the proposed assignee a notice under section 83ZA (notice requirements in relation to proceedings for possession on absolute ground for anti-social behaviour) which is still in force.]

[F5Ground 2AE+W

Textual Amendments

F5Sch. 3 Ground 2A inserted (6.6.2005 for E. and 14.7.2005 for W.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 191, 270(4)(5); S.I. 2005/1451, art. 2(b); S.I. 2005/1814, art. 2(a)

Textual Amendments

F8Word in Sch. 3 Ground 2A omitted (20.10.2014 for E., 21.10.2014 for W.) by virtue of Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1)(2)(c)(3)(c), Sch. 11 para. 15(4)(a) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2014/2590, art. 2(h); S.I. 2014/2830, art. 2(g)(viii)

F11Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 85 (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2

[F15Ground 2BE+W

Textual Amendments

The dwelling-house is subject to a closure notice or closure order under Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.]

Ground 3E+W

The accommodation afforded by the dwelling-house is substantially more extensive than is reasonably required by the proposed assignee.

Ground 4E+W

The extent of the accommodation afforded by the dwelling-house is not reasonably suitable to the needs of the proposed assignee and his family.

Ground 5E+W

The dwelling-house—

(a)forms part of or is within the curtilage of a building which, or so much of it as is held by the landlord, is held mainly for purposes other than housing purposes and consists mainly of accommodation other than housing accommodation, or is situated in a cemetery, and

(b)was let to the tenant or a predecessor in title of his in consequence of the tenant or predecessor being in the employment of—

Textual Amendments

F17Entry in Sch. 3 Ground 5(b) inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 83(6)(c)

F18Entry in Sch. 3 Ground 5(b) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 152, Sch. 18 Pt. IV (with ss. 137(1), 139(2), 141(1), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4

F19Entry in Sch. 3 Ground 5(b) inserted (15.1.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(1)(l), Sch. 22 para. 18

Ground 6E+W

The landlord is a charity and the proposed assignee’s occupation of the dwelling-house would conflict with the objects of the charity.

Ground 7E+W

The dwelling-house has features which are substantially different from those of ordinary dwelling-houses and which are designed to make it suitable for occupation by a physically disabled person who requires accommodation of the kind provided by the dwelling-house and if the assignment were made there would no longer be such a person residing in the dwelling-house.

Ground 8E+W

The landlord is a housing association or housing trust which lets dwelling-houses only for occupation (alone or with others) by persons whose circumstances (other than merely financial circumstances) make it especially difficult for them to satisfy their need for housing and if the assignment were made there would no longer be such a person residing in the dwelling-house.

Ground 9E+W

The dwelling-house is one of a group of dwelling-houses which it is the practice of the landlord to let for occupation by persons with special needs and a social service or special facility is provided in close proximity to the group of dwelling-houses in order to assist persons with those special needs and if the assignment were made there would no longer be a person with those special needs residing in the dwelling-house.

[F20 Ground 10E+W

The dwelling-house is the subject of a management agreement under which the manager is a housing association of which at least half the members are tenants of dwelling-houses subject to the agreement, at least half the tenants of the dwelling-houses are members of the association and the proposed assignee is not, and is not willing to become, a member of the association.]

[F21Reference to a management agreement includes a section 247 or 249 arrangement, as defined by section 250A(6) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.]