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(2) 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.

Regulation 2

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.

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.