Section: Right to Buy

New Regulations

The Housing (Right of First Refusal) (Wales) Regulations 2005 SI 2680 (W.186)

The landlords of secure tenants buying their homes under the Right to Buy scheme are required by section 156A of the 1985 Act to impose a covenant in conveyances and grants of leases to the effect that, for a period of ten-years after the property is transferred to the tenant under the Right to Buy, there must be no relevant disposal which is not an exempted disposal. This instrument contains the prescribed conditions.
The Housing (Right to Buy) (Information to Secure Tenants) (Wales) Order 2005 SI 2681 (W.187)

Part 5 of the Housing Act 1985 confers on the secure tenants of certain landlords a right to buy their homes, subject to specific exceptions. Section 189 of the Housing Act 2004 inserts new sections 121AA and 121B in Part 5 of the Act, replacing the duty in section 104(1)(b) of the Act regarding provision by landlords of information in connection with the right to buy.

Under these new sections a landlord of secure tenants must now supply those tenants with a document containing information on the matters (and restricted to those matters) specified by the National Assembly for Wales in an order.
The Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2005 SI 2876

These Regulations substitute the form of notice to be used by a tenant claiming to exercise the right to buy his or her dwelling-house in accordance with section 122 of the Housing Act 1985. The Regulations apply in relation to houses and flats in England only.
The Housing (Right to Buy) (Designated Rural Areas and Designated Regions) (England) (No 2) Order 2005 SI 2908

Section: Right to Buy

New Regulations

Housing Monthly Diary

Issue: January 2006 Reporting on Sept.-Dec. 2005

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