The Housing (Change of Landlord) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made: 9th May 1990

Laid before Parliament: 10th May 1990

Coming into force: 31st May 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 111(a), 112, and 114(1)[^f00001] of, and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 12 to, the Housing Act 1988[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Change of Landlord) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 31st May 1990.

Amendment to Regulations

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• (1) The Housing (Change of Landlord) Regulations 1989[^f00003] are amended in accordance with this regulation.

• (2) In the Arrangement of Regulations, at the end there is added—

(20) Prescribed circumstances. (21) Prescribed time.

• (3) After Part VIII there is inserted the following Part—

(20) The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 12 to the Act of the coming to an end of a lease granted under section 104(1)(b) are all the circumstances of determination provided for in Schedule 4 to these Regulations. (21) The time prescribed for the purposes of the said paragraph 3(1) for furnishing to the Chief Land Registrar the statement referred to in that paragraph 3(1) is any time within a period of 28 days after the day of notice of determination.

Signed

Chris Patten — Secretary of State for the Environment — 9th May 1990

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 9th May 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Housing (Change of Landlord) Regulations 1989 by the insertion of Part IX (new regulations 20 and 21).

The Regulations are made under Part IV of the Housing Act 1988 (“the Act”) under which the secure tenant of a public sector landlord (“the landlord”) may choose to become the tenant of an approved person who has applied under Part IV to become his new landlord. Section 108 of, and Schedule 12 to, the Act provide as to registration of title and related matters arising on acquisitions of property under Part IV and disposals of property so acquired. Paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 12 requires the landlord which was the lessee under a lease granted under section 104(1)(b) of the Act to furnish a statement to the Chief Land Registrar at a prescribed time if the lease comes to an end in prescribed circumstances.

New regulation 20 prescribes those circumstances, and new regulation 21 prescribes the time at which the statement must be furnished. The form of the statement is prescribed by the Housing (Change of Landlord) (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1059), regulation 2(7) and Schedule 3.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the definition of “prescribed”.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 50.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1989/367.