Social housing rents

Change of registered provider
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1
This section applies if—
a
particular social housing of a registered provider becomes social housing of another registered provider (“the transferee”), and
b
the social housing is subject to a tenancy that began before the social housing became the transferee’s social housing.
2
Sections 23 to 27 and Schedule 2 have effect in relation to the amount of rent payable by the tenant under the tenancy as if—
a
the transferee’s relevant years were the same as the initial registered provider’s relevant years, and
b
rent payable by the tenant before the social housing became the transferee’s social housing were rent payable to the transferee in respect of such earlier periods.
3
Subsection (4) applies if, immediately before the social housing became the transferee’s social housing, a requirement imposed by or under section 23 or 27 or Part 1 of Schedule 2 was disapplied or modified as regards the social housing—
a
by a direction under section 25 or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2, or
b
under section 27(9).
4
If the social housing becomes the transferee’s social housing otherwise than at the beginning of a relevant year of the initial registered provider, the requirement continues not to apply or continues to apply as modified (as the case may be) until—
a
the relevant year of the initial registered provider current when the social housing becomes the transferee’s social housing comes to an end, or
b
if earlier, the tenancy comes to an end.
5
In this section a reference to a relevant year of an initial registered provider includes, in the case of an initial registered provider that has ceased to exist, a reference to what would have been a relevant year of an initial registered provider if it had not ceased to exist.
6
In this section “initial registered provider”, in relation to a tenancy of social housing, means the first registered provider which—
a
was subject to a requirement imposed by or under section 23 or 27 or Part 1 of Schedule 2 as regards the tenancy, or
b
would have been so subject but for its being disapplied—
i
by or under section 24 or paragraph 5 of Schedule 2, or
ii
by a direction under section 25 or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 or under section 27(9).