The Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Persons) Order 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/1703
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Persons) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 17th August 1992.

(2) This Order shall not apply in relation to claims to exercise the right to buy, the right to a shared ownership lease or the right to acquire an additional share, where in each case the tenant’s notice under section 122(1) of the Housing Act 1985 or, as the case may be, the notice mentioned in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 8 to that Act was served before 17th August 1992.

Section 2 Revocation

The Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Persons) Order 1984 and the Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Persons) Order 1989 are hereby revoked.

Section 3 Prescribed persons

The persons listed in the Schedule to this Order and any predecessor of any of those persons are prescribed for the purposes of section 130(2)(a) of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to, the Housing Act 1985.

Section 4 Prescribed circumstances

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, all circumstances are prescribed for the purposes of section 130(2)(a) of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to, the Housing Act 1985.

(2) In relation to the Trinity House the following circumstances only are prescribed:

the interest of the landlord belongs to the Trinity House and the dwelling-house is held in connection with the functions of the Trinity House as a general light-house authority within the meaning of section 634 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 .