The Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made: 15th July 1992

Coming into force: 17th August 1992

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 section 176(1) and (5) of the Housing Act 1985[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 17th August 1992.

Amendment

2

For the list of public sector landlords at the end of the form set out in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1986[^f00002] there is substituted the list set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Saving

3

Nothing in these Regulations shall affect the validity of any notice served under section 122(1) of the Housing Act 1985 before 17th October 1992 if the notice was in the form prescribed by the Regulations mentioned in regulation 2 above.

SCHEDULE

• Local authorities, parish councils, community councils

• Any of the following bodies set up in consequence of the abolition of the Greater London Council and the metropolitan county councils— the Inner London Education Authority a metropolitan county police authority the Northumbria Police Authority a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority a metropolitan county passenger transport authority the London Waste Regulation Authority the West London, North London, East London and Western Riverside Waste Authorities the Merseyside and Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authorities the London Residuary Body a metropolitan county residuary body

• Fire authorities

• Internal drainage boards

• London Regional Transport

• Passenger transport executives

• Police authorities

• Commission for the New Towns

• Housing action trusts

• Housing Corporation

• Housing for Wales

• New town development corporations

• Registered housing associations (which are not co-operative associations)

• Urban development corporations

• AFRC Institute for Grassland and Animal Production

• Agricultural and Food Research Council

• Area Electricity Boards

• British Airports Authority

• British Broadcasting Corporation

• British Coal Corporation

• British Gas Corporation

• British Railways Board

• British Steel Corporation

• British Waterways Board

• Central Electricity Generating Board

• Church Commissioners

• Civil Aviation Authority

• Electricity Council

• Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

• Lake District Special Planning Board

• Lee Valley Regional Park Authority

• Ministers of the Crown and Government Departments

• Medical Research Council

• National Bus Company

• National Health Service trusts

• National Rivers Authority

• Natural Environment Research Council

• Nature Conservancy Council for England

• Peak Park Joint Planning Board

• Post Office

• Science and Engineering Research Council

• Sports Council

• Trinity House (but only in its capacity as a lighthouse authority)

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

• Water authorities

• Countryside Council for Wales

• Development Board for Rural Wales

• National Library of Wales

• National Museum of Wales

• Sports Council for Wales

• Welsh Development Agency

• Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses

• Highlands and Islands Enterprise

• North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board

• Scottish Homes

• Scottish Natural Heritage

• Scottish Sports Council

• South of Scotland Electricity Board

• Education and Library Boards in Northern Ireland

• Fire Authority for Northern Ireland

• Northern Ireland Electricity Service

• Northern Ireland Housing Executive

• Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company

• Police Authority for Northern Ireland

• Sports Council for Northern Ireland

• AND ANY PREDECESSOR OF THESE LANDLORDS.

Signed

Michael Howard — Secretary of State for the Environment — 15th July 1992

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 15th July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the prescribed form of notice to be used by a tenant in claiming to exercise the right to buy under Part V of the Housing Act 1985. The form lists certain bodies which are public sector landlords. Periods spent as a tenant of such a body are relevant in relation to qualification for the right to buy and entitlement to discount.

The amendments to the form reflect the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Persons) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1703), which amends the list of bodies to be treated as public sector landlords under Part V of the 1985 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 68.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/2194; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/239.