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(1)Where the initial notice has been given in accordance with section 13 but—
(a)the reversioner has failed to give the nominee purchaser a counter-notice in accordance with section 21(1), or
(b)if required to give the nominee purchaser a further counter-notice by or by virtue of section 22(3) or section 23(5) or (6), the reversioner has failed to comply with that requirement,
the court may, on the application of the nominee purchaser, make an order determining the terms on which he is to acquire, in accordance with the proposals contained in the initial notice, such interests and rights as are specified in it under section 13(3).
(2)The terms determined by the court under subsection (1) shall, if Part II of Schedule 9 is applicable, include terms which provide for the leasing back, in accordance with section 36 and that Part of that Schedule, of flats or other units contained in the specified premises.
(3)The court shall not make any order on an application made by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) unless it is satisfied—
(a)that the participating tenants were on the relevant date entitled to exercise the right to collective enfranchisement in relation to the specified premises; and
(b)if applicable, that the requirements of Part II of Schedule 3 were complied with as respects the giving of copies of the initial notice.
(4)Any application for an order under subsection (1) must be made not later than the end of the period of six months beginning with the date by which the counter-notice or further counter-notice referred to in that subsection was to be given to the nominee purchaser.
(5)Where—
(a)the terms of acquisition have been determined by an order of the court under subsection (1), but
(b)a binding contract incorporating those terms has not been entered into by the end of the appropriate period specified in subsection (8),
the court may, on the application of either the nominee purchaser or the reversioner, make such order under subsection (6) as it thinks fit.
(6)The court may under this subsection make an order—
(a)providing for the interests to be acquired by the nominee purchaser to be vested in him on the terms referred to in subsection (5);
(b)providing for those interests to be vested in him on those terms, but subject to such modifications as—
(i)may have been determined by [F1the appropriate tribunal], on the application of either the nominee purchaser or the reversioner, to be required by reason of any change in circumstances since the time when the terms were determined as mentioned in that subsection, and
(ii)are specified in the order; or
(c)providing for the initial notice to be deemed to have been withdrawn at the end of the appropriate period specified in subsection (8);
and Schedule 5 shall have effect in relation to any such order as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above.
(7)Any application for an order under subsection (6) must be made not later than the end of the period of two months beginning immediately after the end of the appropriate period specified in subsection (8).
(8)For the purposes of this section the appropriate period is—
(a)the period of two months beginning with the date when the order of the court under subsection (1) becomes final, or
(b)such other period as may have been fixed by the court when making that order.
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F1Words in s. 25(6)(b)(i) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 102 (with Sch. 3)
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