Section 26 | Applications Where Relevant Landlord Cannot Be Found | Leasehold Reform Housing And Urban Development Act 1993 C28

26 Applications where relevant landlord cannot be found

Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (1993 c 28) | Legislation

26 Applications where relevant landlord cannot be found

(1) Where not less than two-thirds of the qualifying tenants of flats contained in any premises to which this Chapter applies desire to make a claim to exercise the right to collective enfranchisement in relation to those premises [a RTE company which satisfies the requirement in section 13(2)(b) wishes to make a claim to exercise the right to collective enfranchisement] but—

(a) (in a case to which section 9(1) applies) the person who owns the freehold of the premises cannot be found or his identity cannot be ascertained, or

(b) (in a case to which section 9(2) [or (2A)] applies) each of the relevant landlords is someone who cannot be found or whose identity cannot be ascertained,

the court [the appropriate tribunal] may, on the application of the qualifying tenants in question [RTE company], make a vesting order under this subsection—

(i) with respect to any interests of that person (whether in those premises or in any other property) which are liable to acquisition on behalf of those tenants [by the RTE company] by virtue of section 1(1) or (2)(a) or section 2(1) [Schedule A1], or

(ii) with respect to any interests