SCHEDULEMODIFICATIONS OF PART V
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In section 178 (costs) —
a
for subsection (1) substitute —
1
An agreement between —
a
the landlord, an intermediate landlord or the freeholder and a tenant claiming to exercise the right to buy, or
b
the landlord, an intermediate landlord, the freeholder, or, as the case may be, the Housing Corporation and a tenant claiming to exercise the right to a mortgage,
is void in so far as it purports to oblige the tenant to bear any part of the costs incurred by the landlord, intermediate landlord, freeholder or Housing Corporation in connection with the tenant’s exercise of that right.
b
in subsection (2) —
i
omit the words from “or such a right” to “(right to further advances)”, and
ii
for the reference to the landlord substitute a reference to the freeholder.