Part V Miscellaneous and General
Right to buy etc. and grants to obtain accommodation
127 Preserved right to buy.
1
In subsection (4) of section 171B of the M1 Housing Act 1985 for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
a
where the former secure tenancy was not a joint tenancy and, immediately before his death, the former secure tenant was tenant under an assured tenancy of a dwelling-house in relation to which he had the preserved right to buy, a member of the former secure tenant’s family who acquired that assured tenancy under the will or intestacy of the former secure tenant;
aa
where the former secure tenancy was not a joint tenancy, a member of the former secure tenant’s family to whom the former secure tenant assigned his assured tenancy of a dwelling-house in relation to which, immediately before the assignment, he had the preserved right to buy
2
In subsection (2)(a) of section 171C of that Act after the word
“paragraphs” there shall be inserted “
“1, 3 and
”
.
3
After subsection (4) of that section there shall be added the following subsection—
5
The disapplication by the regulations of paragraph I of Schedule 5 shall not be taken to authorise any action on the part of a charity which would conflict with the trusts of the charity.