PART III RIGHTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR TENANTS
Security of tenure
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Succession
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Leases
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Subletting
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Repairs and improvements
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Right to buy
F3261 Secure tenant’s right to purchase
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F3261ZALimitation on right to purchase: new tenants
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F3261A Limitation on right to purchase from registered social landlords
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F3261B Limitation on right to purchase: pressured areas
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F3261C Pressured area proposals: procedure
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F3261D Limitation on right to purchase: arrears of rent, council tax etc.
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F3261E Limitation on right to purchase: conduct
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F3261FLimitation on right to purchase: new supply social housing
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F3262 The price.
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F3262A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Procedure
F3263 Application to purchase and offer to sell.
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F3263AInformation to be prescribed
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F3264
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F3265 Variation of conditions.
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F3266 Notice of acceptance.
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F3266A Abatement of purchase price on landlord’s failure before contract of sale.
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F3266BAbatement of purchase price on landlord’s failure after contract of sale.
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F3266CProvisions relating to sections 66A and 66B.
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F3268 Refusal of applications.
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Houses provided for special purposes
F3269 Secretary of State’s power to authorise refusal to sell certain houses provided for persons of pensionable age.
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F3269APower to refuse to sell houses required for police purposes
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F3270 Power to refuse to sell certain houses required for educational purposes.
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Houses liable to demolition
F3270A Authorisation of refusal to sell houses liable to demolition
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Lands Tribunal
F3271 Reference to Lands Tribunal.
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Recoverability of discount
F3272 Recovery of discount on early re-sale.
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F3273 Cases where discount etc. is not recoverable .
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Rent to loan scheme
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F3274 Duties of landlords.
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F3275 Agreements affecting right to purchase.
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Powers of Secretary of State
F3277 Secretary of State may make provision for vesting in landlord to bring into being tenant’s right to purchase house.
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F3278 Secretary of State may give directions to modify conditions of sale.
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F3279 Secretary of State may give financial and other assistance for tenants involved in proceedings.
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F3280 Secretary of State may make contributions towards the cost of transfers and exchanges.
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F3281 Information from landlords in relation to Secretary of State’s powers.
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F20 Preservation of right to buy on disposal to private sector landlord
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F22Consultation before disposal to private sector landlord
S. 81B and cross heading inserted (21.2.1992) by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 135(1)(3); S.I. 1992/324, art. 2
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General
C182F33Interpretation of sections 14, 19 and 20
In F34... sections 14, 19, F23and 20, except where provision is made to the contrary,
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“family” and any reference to membership thereof shall be construed in accordance with section 83;
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“landlord” means a person who lets a house to a tenant for human habitation, and includes his successors in title;
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“tenancy” means any agreement under which a house is made available for occupation for human habitation, and “leases”, “let” and “lets” shall be construed accordingly;
“tenant” means a person who leases a house from a landlord and who derives his right therein directly from the landlord, and in the case of joint tenancies means all the tenants.
C383C2Members of a person’s family.
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A person is a member of another’s family for the purposes of this Act if—
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he is that person’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.
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For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—
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a relationship by marriage F29or by virtue of civil partnership shall be treated as a relationship by blood;
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a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood;
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the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child; and
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a person brought up or treated by another person as if the person were the child of the other person shall be treated as that person’s child;
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a child shall be treated as such whether or not his parents are married.
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Except in subsection (1)(a), references in this Act to a person’s spouse include references to F30that person’s civil partner or to another person living together with that person as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex.
F3684 Service of notices.
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F3784A Application of right to buy to cases where landlord is lessee.
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S. 81A and cross heading inserted (21.2.1992) by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 128; S.I. 1992/324, art. 2