SCHEDULE 4 Qualifying Period for Right to Buy and Discount
Housing Act 1985 (1985 c 68) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 4 Qualifying Period for Right to Buy and Discount

Sections 119, 129

Introductory

1

The period to be taken into account—

(a)     for the purposes of section 119 (qualification for right to buy), and

(b)     for the purposes of section 129 (discount),

is the period qualifying, or the aggregate of the periods qualifying, under the following provisions of this Schedule.

Periods occupying accommodation subject to public sector tenancy

2

A period qualifies under this paragraph if it is a period during which, before the relevant time—

(a)     the secure tenant, or

(b)     his spouse [or civil partner] (if they are living together at the relevant time), or

(c)     a deceased spouse[, or deceased civil partner,] of his (if they were living together at the time of the death),

was a public sector tenant or was the spouse [or civil partner] of a public sector tenant and occupied as his only or principal home the dwelling-house of which the spouse [or civil partner] was such a tenant.

3

For the purposes of paragraph 2 a person who, as a joint tenant under a public sector tenancy, occupied a dwelling-house as his only

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