Section 27 — Housing and Planning Act 2016: Prohibition on certain disposals

Prohibition on certain disposals 27 1 A person who is subject to a banning order that includes a ban on letting may not make an unauthorised transfer of an estate in land to a prohibited person.

2 A disposal in breach of the prohibition imposed by subsection (1) is void.

3 A transfer is “ unauthorised ” for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is authorised by the First-tier Tribunal on an application by the person who is subject to the banning order.

4 In subsection (1) “ prohibited person ” means—

a a person associated with the landlord, b a business partner of the landlord, c a person associated with a business partner of the landlord, d a business partner of a person associated with the landlord, e a body corporate of which the landlord or a person mentioned in paragraph (a) to (d) is an officer, f a body corporate in which the landlord has a shareholding or other financial interest, or g in a case where the landlord is a body corporate, any body corporate that has an officer in common with the landlord.

5 In section (4)— “ associated person ” is to be read in accordance with section 178 of the Housing Act 1996; “ business partner ” is to be read in accordance with section 34(5) of the Deregulation Act 2015.