The New Towns (Transfer of Housing Stock) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Amendment of New Towns (Transfer of Housing Stock) Regulations 1990

2.  The New Towns (Transfer of Housing Stock) Regulations 1990(1)shall be amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after regulation 2(3)—

“(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall—

(a) prevent a new town corporation making a disposal in exercise of their powers under section 17 or, as the case may be, section 36 of the New Towns Act 1981(2), or

(b) affect a corporation’s duty, in the period before a disposal of a dwelling in pursuance of these Regulations, to act in accordance with Part V (The Right to Buy) of the Housing Act 1985(3) with respect to that dwelling;

and, where a corporation transfer an estate or interest in housing stock under any of those provisions, these Regulations shall cease to apply for the disposal of that estate or interest.”.

(1)

S.I. 1990/1700.

(2)

1981 c. 64; these sections were amended by section 1 of, and Schedule 3 to, the New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Act 1985 (c. 5).

(3)

1985 c. 68.