xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2134 (C.41)

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

LANDLORD AND TENANT, ENGLAND AND WALES

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions No. 1) Order 1993

Made

1st September 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 188(2) and (3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993(1) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order–

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions No. 1) Order 1993.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the first commencement date” means the 2nd September 1993;

“the second commencement date” means the 11th October 1993;

“the third commencement date” means the 1st November 1993;

“the 1967 Act” means the Leasehold Reform Act 1967(2);

“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 1985(3);

“the 1987 Act” means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987(4); and

“the 1993 Act” means the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and references to sections and Schedules without more are references to sections of and Schedules to that Act.

Commencement

3.  The following provisions of the 1993 Act shall come into force on the first commencement date–

4.  The following provisions of the 1993 Act shall come into force on the second commencement date–

(a)section 123,

(b)subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 1 to this Order,–

5.  The following provisions of the 1993 Act shall come into force on the third commencement date–

(a)sections 1 to 25,

(b)subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 1 to this Order,–

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

1st September 1993

Articles 4 and 5

SCHEDULE 1TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

1.  The amendments made by sections 67 and 68 (amendments to the 1967 Act) do not have effect in a case where the right to acquire the freehold of a house and premises arises other than by virtue of any one or more of the provisions of section 1A and 1B of the 1967 Act in relation to a lease created after the third commencement date pursuant to a contract entered into before that date.

2.  The amendments made by–

do not have effect in a case where a notice under section 27 of the 1987 Act (tenants' preliminary notice) was served before the third commencement date.

3.  The amendment made by section 86 (amendment to Part IV of the 1987 Act) does not have effect in a case where an application under section 35(1) of the 1987 Act was made before the third commencement date.

4.—(1) The amendments made by—

(amendments to Part V of the 1985 Act: the right to buy) do not have effect–

(a)in a case where a notice under section 122 of the 1985 Act (tenant’s notice claiming to exercise the right to buy) is served before the second commencement date; and

(b)in relation to the operation of Part V of the 1985 Act as applied by the Local Government Reorganisation (Preservation of Right to Buy) Order 1986(12).

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a), no account shall be taken of any steps taken under section 177 of the 1985 Act (errors and omissions in notices).

(3) The amendments made by section 106 (exceptions to the right to buy) do not have effect in relation to the operation of Part V of the 1985 Act as applied by the Order mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).

5.  The amendments made by–

do not have effect in relation to a proposed disposal in a case where a notice under section 84(2) of that Act was served before the second commencement date.

6.  The substitution, by section 130, of section 27A of the 1985 Act shall have effect, in a case where a local housing authority who propose to enter into a management agreement have taken steps before the second commencement date to comply with the requirements of section 27A(1) and (2) of the 1985 Act in the form in which it was in force immediately before the second commencement date, so as to enable the authority to take into account the steps already taken when determining what arrangements they consider appropriate for the purpose of section 27A(1) as substituted.

7.  The substitutions made by sections 133 and 134 (priority of charges securing repayments of discount) do not have effect in relation to the order of priority between a charge taking effect by virtue of section 36 of the 1985 Act or paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Housing Associations Act 1985(14) (as the case may be) and any advance made before the second commencement date.

8.  The substitution, by section 178, of section 157 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(15) does not have effect in a case where a notice under subsection (1) of that section was served before the second commencement date.

9.—(1) The amendment made by section 187(1) in so far as it relates to paragraph 5 of Schedule 21 (amendment to Part I of the Land Compensation Act 1973(16) does not have effect in a case where the relevant date is before the third commencement date.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “relevant date” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Land Compensation Act 1973.

10.  Section 187(2) in so far as it relates to the repeals of sections 142 and 153B(1)(c) of the 1985 Act and in paragraphs 16B(4) of Schedule 6 to that Act does not have effect in relation to provisions in Part V of the 1985 Act relating to the preserved right to buy in a case where a person has the preserved right to buy (as defined in section 171A of that Act) before the second commencement date.

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2REPEALS

Repeals coming into force on the second commencement date subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 1

ChapterShort TitleExtent of repeal
1985 c. 68The Housing Act 1985

Section 124(3).

Section 128(6).

Sections 132 to 135.

In section 137, in subsection (1), the words “or the right to mortgage” and, in subsection (2), paragraph (b).

In section 138(1), the words “and to the amount to be left outstanding or advanced on the security of the dwelling-house”.

Section 139(3).

In section 140(5), the words “and to the amount to be left outstanding or advanced on the security of the dwelling-house”.

Section 142.

In section 153A(1), paragraphs (c) and (d).

In section 153B(1), paragraph (c).

Section 164(6).

Section 166(6).

In section 169(3), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding that paragraph.

In section 171C(2), paragraph (b).

In section 171H, in subsection (1), the words “or the right to a mortgage” and, in subsection (2), paragraph (b).

In section 177, in subsection (2)(b) the words “or the Corporation” and in subsection (3), the entries relating to section 135 and paragraph 5 of Schedule 9.

In section 180, the words “the Corporation” and “Corporation”.

In section 181(1), the words “and paragraph 11 of Schedule 8”.

In section 182(1), the words “or the right to a mortgage”.

In section 187, the definition of “total share”.

In section 188, the entries beginning “additional share and additional contribution”, “effective discount”, “full mortgage”, “initial share and initial contribution”, “prescribed percentage”, “right to be granted a shared ownership lease”, “right to further advances”, “right to a mortgage” and “total share”.

In Schedule 6, in paragraphs 16B(4) and 16C(4), paragraph (c) and the word “and” immediately preceding that paragraph.

Schedules 7 to 9.

1986 c. 63The Housing and Planning Act 1986In Schedule 5, paragraph 5.
1988 c. 50The Housing Act 1988In section 79(2)(b), the words “in accordance with section 84 below”.
1989 c. 42The Local Government and Housing Act 1989Section 164.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 3 of this Order brings into force wholly or partly on 2nd September 1993 a number of provisions of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 relating to powers to make orders, regulations, rules or declarations.

Article 4 of this Order brings into force on 11th October 1993 the following provisions of the 1993 Act–

Article 5 of this Order brings into force on 1st November 1993 the following provisions of the 1993 Act–

The provisions listed in article 4(b) and article 5(b) are brought into force subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 1 to the Order.