SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Qualifying Period for Right to Buy and Discount
Periods occupying accommodation subject to public sector tenancy
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1
This paragraph applies where the public sector tenant of a dwelling-house died or otherwise ceased to be a public sector tenant of the dwelling-house, and thereupon a child of his who occupied the dwelling-house as his only or principal home (the “new tenant”) became the public sector tenant of the dwelling-house (whether under the same or under another public sector tenancy).
2
A period during which the new tenant, since reaching the age of 16, occupied as his only or principal home a dwelling-house of which a parent of his was the public sector tenant or one of joint tenants under a public sector tenancy, being either—
a
the period at the end of which he became the public sector tenant, or
b
an earlier period ending two years or less before the period mentioned in paragraph (a) or before another period within this paragraph,
shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph 2 as a period during which he was a public sector tenant.
3
For the purposes of this paragraph two persons shall be treated as parent and child if they would be so treated under section 186(2) (members of a person’s family: relationships other than those of the whole blood).