PART V THE RIGHT TO BUY

Supplementary provisions

185 Meaning of “secure tenancy” and “secure tenant”.

(1)

References in this Part to a secure tenancy or a secure tenant in relation to a time before 26th August 1984 are to a tenancy which would have been a secure tenancy if Chapter II of Part I of the M1Housing Act 1980 and Part I of the M2Housing and Building Control Act 1984 had then been in force or to a person who would then have been a secure tenant.

(2)

For the purpose of determining whether a person would have been a secure tenant and his tenancy a secure tenancy—

(a)

a predecessor of a local authority shall be deemed to have been such an authority, and

(b)

a housing association shall be deemed to have been registered if it is or was F1a F2private registered provider of social housing orregistered social landlord at any later time.