Affordable Housing Act 2021

Amendments to Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997

25. The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 is amended—

(a) in section 1, in the definition of “affordable house”, by the substitution of “purchased under an affordable dwelling purchase arrangement under Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021” for “purchased under affordable dwelling purchase arrangements under Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 ”, and

(b) in section 14(2)—

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021,”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (iii):

“(iii) in the case of an affordable dwelling purchase arrangement under Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, an eligible applicant within the meaning of section 4 of that Act,”,

(iii) by the substitution of “eligible applicant or any member of the eligible applicant’s household” for “eligible household or any member of the eligible household”, and

(iv) by the substitution of “that eligible applicant’s household” for “that eligible household”.