247 Changes of ownership or occupation of land to be notified to local housing authority
Housing Act 1985 (1985 c 68) | Legislation

247  Changes of ownership or occupation of land to be notified to local housing authority

(1)     This section—

(a)     applies to land in a housing action area which consists of or includes housing accommodation, and

(b)     comes into operation in relation to a housing action area at the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the date on which the housing action area is declared.

(2)     Where notice to quit is served in respect of land to which this section applies on a tenant who occupies as a dwelling the whole or part of the land, the landlord by whom, or on whose behalf, the notice was served shall, within the period of seven days beginning with the date on which the notice was served, notify the local housing authority that the notice has been served.

(3)     Where a tenancy of land to which this section applies is about to expire by effluxion of time,

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