[153A Tenant's notices of delay]
Housing Act 1985 (1985 c 68) | Legislation

[Tenant's sanction for landlord's delays]

[153A  Tenant's notices of delay]

[(1)     Where a secure tenant has claimed to exercise the right to buy, he may serve on his landlord a notice (in this section referred to as an “initial notice of delay”) in any of the following cases, namely,—

(a)     where the landlord has failed to serve a notice under section 124 within the period appropriate under subsection (2) [or (3)] of that section;

(b)     where the tenant's right to buy has been established and the landlord has failed to serve a notice under section 125 within the period appropriate under subsection (1) of that section;

(c), (d)     . . . or

(e)     where the tenant considers that delays on the part of the landlord are preventing him from exercising expeditiously his right to buy or his [right to acquire on rent to mortgage terms];

and

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