Paragraph 4 inserts a new Ground (1B) so that a court must award possession when private registered providers of social housing are either selling a freehold or leasehold interest in the property, granting a long lease over 21 years or re-letting to a different tenant under an assured tenancy.
	Subparagraph (e) specifies that landlords may only use the ground where the defined period stated in the rent-to-buy agreement has expired.
	Subparagraph (f) stipulates that the landlord must have complied with any terms in the rent-to-buy agreement which require them to offer the sitting tenant the opportunity to buy the property and with any required procedures etc. in the agreement about such an offer.
Schedules Schedule 1: Changes to grounds for possession New ground for possession after rent-to-buy agreement (1B) Effect