Landlord’s notice admitting or denying right to buy
- Respond to right-to-buy claim within 4 or 8 weeks
UK Statutory Instrument
1993
United Kingdom
The Housing (Preservation of Right to Buy) Regulations 1993
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14 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 5 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
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Schedules
Landlord’s notice of purchase price and other matters
- Landlord must serve price notice within 8 or 12 weeks
Estimates and information about service charges
- Include service charge estimates and information in right-to-buy notice
Estimates and information about improvement contributions
- Provide itemised estimates of improvement contributions in your section 125 notice
Determination of value by district valuer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Landlord must serve notice of district valuer's valuation within a reasonable time Local authority
Duty of landlord to convey freehold or grant lease
- Landlord must complete sale or lease when the right to buy is established
Registration of title
- Provide a certificate of title when selling or leasing unregistered property
Liability to repay is a charge on the premises
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Landlord must consent to priority of other loans and postpone its charge for approved purposes Local authority
Consideration for reconveyance or surrender under s. 157.
- Agree or determine the price when a qualifying owner offers to sell back their home
When qualifying person is entitled to defer completion.
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Respond to tenant's defer completion request within a reasonable time Local authority
The conveyance shall be expressed to be made by the...
- Landlord must convey property as beneficial owner implying title covenant
(1) This paragraph applies where the qualifying dwelling-house is a...
- Landlord must repair structure, exterior and services of flats
(1) This paragraph applies to a charge (however created or...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Indemnify buyer against rentcharge and redeem it if possible Local authority
(1) This paragraph applies where by virtue of section 171B(6)...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Landlord must register notice and restriction to protect preserved right to buy Local authority
Browse 168 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, in...
In section 127 (value of qualifying dwelling-house)—
In section 131 (limits on amount of discount)—
In section 136 (change of qualifying person after notice claiming...
In section 137(1) (change of landlord after claiming right to...
In section 139(2) (terms and effect of conveyance or grant)...
For section 140(3) (landlord’s first notice to complete) substitute—
Omit sections 143 to 153 (right to acquire on rent...
In section 153A(1)(e) and (3)(b) (qualifying person’s notices of delay)...
In section 153B (payments of rent attributable to purchase price...
In section 154 (registration of title), in subsection (1) omit...
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, in...
In section 155 (repayment of discount on early disposal)—
In section 156 (liability to repay is a charge on...
In section 157 (restriction on disposal of qualifying dwelling-houses in...
In section 158 (consideration for reconveyance or surrender under s....
In section 162(a) (exempted disposals which end liability under covenants)...
Omit sections 164 to 170 (various powers of Secretary of...
Omit section 171 (power to extend right to buy, etc.)....
In section 171A(2) (cases in which right to buy is...
In section 171B(5)(b) (extent of preserved right: qualifying persons and...
Omit section 171C (modifications to Part V in relation to...
Omit section 118(2) (the right to buy).
Omit section 173 (exclusion of shared ownership leases granted under...
In section 174 (leases granted under Part V to be...
In section 176 (notices) omit subsections (1), (2) and (5)....
Omit section 177 (errors and omissions in notices).
For section 178 (costs) substitute— An agreement between the landlord and qualifying person claiming to...
In section 179 (provisions restricting right to buy, etc. of...
In section 180 (statutory declarations) for the words from the...
In section 181(1)(b) (jurisdiction of county court) omit “or under...
Omit section 182 (power to repeal or amend local Acts)....
In section 184(2)(a) and (3) (land let with or used...
In section 119(2) (qualifying period for right to buy), for...
In section 188 (the index of defined expressions: Part V)—...
In Schedule 5 (exceptions to the right to buy) omit...
After Schedule 5 insert as Schedule 5A the Schedule set...
In Schedule 6 (conveyance of freehold and grant of lease...
Omit Schedule 6A (redemption of landlord’s share under rent to...
At the end of section 122 (qualifying person’s notice claiming...
For section 123(3) (claim to share right to buy with...
In section 125(5) (landlord’s notice of purchase price and other...
In section 125A(2)(b) (estimates and information about service charges), omit...
In section 125D(1) (qualifying person’s notice of intention) for the...
The right to buy
Qualifying period for right to buy
Exceptions to the right to buy
Circumstances in which the right to buy cannot be exercised
Qualifying person’s notice claiming to exercise right to buy
Claim to share right to buy with members of family
Reference period for purposes of ss. 125A and 125B
Qualifying person’s notice of intention
Landlord’s notice in default
Purchase price
Value of qualifying dwelling-house
Discount
Reduction of discount where previous discount given
Limits on amount of discount
Change of qualifying person after notice claiming right to buy
Change of landlord after notice claiming right to buy
Terms and effect of conveyance or grant
Landlord’s first notice to complete
Landlord’s second notice to complete
Qualifying person’s notices of delay
Payments of rent attributable to purchase price
Repayment of discount on early disposal
Restriction on disposal of qualifying dwelling-houses in National Parks, etc.
Relevant disposals
Exempted disposals
Meaning of “compulsory disposal”
Exempted disposals which end liability under covenants
Treatment of options
Cases in which right to buy is preserved
Extent of preserved right: qualifying persons and dwelling-houses
Subsequent dealings: disposal of landlord’s interest in qualifying dwelling-house
Subsequent dealings: termination of landlord’s interest in qualifying dwelling-house
Subsequent dealings: transfer of qualifying person to alternative accommodation
Land registration and related matters
Disposal after notice claiming to exercise right to buy, etc.
Exclusion of leases where landlord is housing association and freeholder is a charity
Leases granted under this Part to be treated as long leases at a low rent
Determination of price payable
Notices
Costs
Provisions restricting right to buy, etc. of no effect
Statutory declarations
Jurisdiction of county court
Meaning of “house”, “flat” and “dwelling-house”
Land let with or used for purposes of dwelling-house
Meaning of “secure tenancy” and “secure tenant”
Members of a person’s family
Minor definitions
Index of defined expressions: Part V
For subsection 125(5) (landlord’s notice of purchase price and other...
For subsection 140(3) (landlord’s first notice to complete) substitute—
For section 142 (when qualifying person is entitled to defer...
After Schedule 6A insert— SCHEDULE 6B RECKONABLE AMOUNT OF QUALIFYING...
The period to be taken into account—
For the purpose of determining whether at any time a...
Landlord’s notice of purchase price and other matters
Landlord’s first notice to complete.
Payments of rent attributable to purchase price etc.
A period qualifies under this paragraph if it is a...
For the purposes of paragraph 2 a person who, as...
(1) This paragraph applies where the public sector tenant of...
A period qualifies under this paragraph if it is a...
A period qualifies under this paragraph if it is a...
(1) In this Schedule a “public sector tenant” means a...
(1) The landlord condition is, subject to paragraph 7A and...
(1) The landord condition shall be treated as having been...
(1) The landlord condition shall also be treated as having...
The tenant condition is that the tenant was an individual...
(1) The right to buy does not arise if the...
(1) The right to buy does not arise if the...
(1) The right to buy does not arise if the...
The right to buy does not arise if the landlord...
The right to buy does not arise unless the landlord...
(1) The right to buy does not arise if the...
The right to buy does not arise if the qualifying...
(1) The right to buy does not arise if—
In this Schedule— “cost floor” means the amount mentioned in...
Costs shall be treated as relevant costs if, and only...
Works of improvement to a qualifying dwelling-house are relevant works...
Costs incurred on any relevant works shall not be treated...
(1) The cost floor is an amount equal to the...
An estimate may be made for the purposes of arriving...
(1) In a case where a landlord is a company,...
The conveyance or grant shall not exclude or restrict the...
A lease shall be for the appropriate term defined in...
(1) If at the time the grant is made the...
Where the qualifying dwelling-house is a flat and the qualifying...
(1) This paragraph applies where the landlord’s interest in the...
Unless otherwise agreed between the landlord and the qualifying person,...
(1) The lease may require the tenant to bear a...
(1) Where a lease of a flat requires the tenant...
(1) Where a lease of a flat requires the tenant...
(1) The Secretary of State may by order prescribe—
(1) A provision of the lease, or of an agreement...
Where the qualifying dwelling-house is a flat, a provision of...
A provision of the lease, or of an agreement collateral...
(1) The conveyance or grant shall, by virtue of this...
A charge (however created or arising) on the interest of...
The conveyance or grant shall include— (a) such provisions (if...
The conveyance or grant shall include such provisions (if any)...
Subject to paragraph 6, and to Parts II and III...
A provision of the conveyance or lease is void in...
In this Schedule— “incumbrances” includes personal liabilities attaching in respect...
The conveyance shall not exclude or restrict the all estate...
(1) The conveyance shall be of an estate in fee...
This Schedule has effect with respect to the calculation of...
(1) This paragraph specifies the appropriate factor to be applied...
In this Schedule— “admissible source” means a source of income...
The qualifying person’s reckonable amount for the purposes of section...
(1) This paragraph applies to income from an employment.
(1) This paragraph applies to income from a business carried...
(1) This paragraph applies to income from a source to...
If the qualifying person has income from more than one...
The landlord may accept any estimate for the purposes of...
Where the right to buy is being exercised by more...
On a qualifying disposal, the disponor shall secure that the...
References in this Schedule to a disposal or to the...
(1) Where, on a qualifying disposal the disponor’s title to...
Where a qualifying disposal takes the form of the grant...
The Chief Land Registrar on application being made for registration...
(1) The rights of a qualifying person under this Part...
(1) A conveyance of the freehold or grant of a...
Where the registered title to land contains an entry made...
(1) An action for breach of statutory duty lies where—...
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