Commentary on Sections Effect of Ministers’ decision on right to buy
245.The new section 97N(1) of the 2003 Act gives Ministers powers to make regulations prohibiting certain persons from transferring or otherwise dealing with the land in respect of which an application under section 97G has been made.
246.Subsection (2) sets out matters that the regulations under subsection (1) may include.
247.Subsection (3) provides that Ministers may make regulations to suspend rights over land in respect of which a Part 3A application has been made. Subsection (4) sets out that these regulations may provide for rights which will not be suspended, as well as rights which will not be suspended in certain circumstances.
248.Subsection (5) provides that nothing in Part 3A of the 2003 Act prejudices the position of creditors seeking to prevent the disposal of heritable property by a debtor by means of inhibition, action of adjudication or any other diligence.