SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part I General Amendments

The Housing Act 1985

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1

In section 554 of that Act (grant of tenancy of defective dwelling to former owner-occupier) at the end of subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

2A

If the authority is a registered housing association, other than a housing co-operative, within the meaning of section 27B, their obligation is to grant a secure tenancy if the individual to whom a tenancy is to be granted—

a

is a person who, immediately before he acquired his interest in the dwelling-house, was a secure tenant of it; or

b

is the spouse or former spouse or widow or widower of a person falling within paragraph (a); or

c

is a member of the family, within the meaning of section 186, of a person falling within paragraph (a) who has died, and was residing with that person in the dwelling-house at the time of and for the period of twelve months before his death.

2

In subsection (3) of that section, at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be inserted

or

c

an assured tenancy which is neither an assured shorthold tenancy, within the meaning of Part I of the Housing Act 1988, nor a tenancy under which the landlord might recover possession on any of Grounds 1 to 5 in Schedule 2 to that Act.