Title page
Contents
Summary 5
1. Background to the Bill 8
1.1. What would the Bill do? 8
2. Second reading in the House of Commons 10
3. Public Bill Committee: Overview 15
4. Part 1: Leasehold enfranchisement and extension 17
4.1. Eligibility for enfranchisement and extension 17
4.2. Effects of enfranchisement 20
4.3. Effects of extension 21
4.4. Price payable on enfranchisement or extension 21
4.5. Costs of enfranchisement or extension 23
4.6. Jurisdiction of the county court and tribunals 24
5. Part 2: Other rights of long leaseholders 25
5.1. New right to replace rent with peppercorn rent 25
5.2. The Right to Manage 26
6. Part 3: Regulation of leasehold 29
6.1. Service charges 29
6.2. Insurance 32
6.3. Administration charges 33
6.4. Litigation costs 34
7. Part 4: Regulation of estate management 36
7.1. Limitation of estate management charges: Reasonableness 36
7.2. Duty of estate managers to publish administration charge schedules 37
8. Part 5: Rentcharges 38
9. Commencement 39
10. New clauses 40
10.1. Abolition of forfeiture of a long lease 40
10.2. Requirement to establish a management company under leaseholder control 41
10.3. The Right to Manage regime for freeholders 42
10.4. Appointment of a substitute estate manager 43
10.5. Redress schemes 44
10.6. Regulation of property agents 45
10.7. Building safety 47
10.8. Providing leaseholders in flats with a share of the freehold 48
10.9. Commencement of section 156 of the CLRA 2002 49
10.10. The Right to Manage procedure 50
10.11. Meaning of "accountable person" for the purposes of the BSA 2022 50
10.12. Requests for sales information 51
11. Appendix: Members of the Public Bill Committee 53