The Housing (Extension of Right to Buy) Order 1987

33.  In section 164 (Secretary of State’s general power to intervene) —

(a) in subsection (1) —

(i) after the words “particular landlord” insert the words “intermediate landlord or freeholder”,

(ii) after the words “description of landlords” insert the words “intermediate landlords or freeholders”, and

(iii) omit the words “or the right to be granted a shared ownership lease”;

(b) in subsection (2), after the words “landlord or landlords” insert the words “, intermediate landlord or intermediate landlords or freeholder or freeholders”;

(c) for subsection (4) substitute —

“(4) Where a notice under this section has been given to a landlord or landlords, intermediate landlord or intermediate landlords or freeholder or freeholders, no step taken by any such authority or body while the notice is in force or before it was given has any effect in relation to the exercise by a secure tenant of the right to buy or the right to a mortgage, except in so far as the notice otherwise provides.”;

(d) in subsection (5) —

(i) for the words “the landlord or landlords” substitute the words “the landlord or landlords, intermediate landlord or intermediate landlords or freeholder or freeholders”,

(ii) after the words “the right to buy” insert the word “and” and omit the words “and the right to be granted a shared ownership lease”, and

(iii) for the words “the landlord” in the second place in which those words occur substitute the words “the landlord, intermediate landlord or freeholder”; and

(e) in subsection (6) for both of the references to landlord substitute references to freeholder.