25. (1) Subject to this Part and the other provisions of Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 and in accordance with such regulations as may be made under section 30 , a housing authority may, in consideration of the receipt by the authority of the purchase money, sell a house to which this Part applies, in the state of repair and condition existing on the date of sale, to the tenant of the house, by means of an order (in this Part referred to as a “transfer order”) in the prescribed form, which shall be expressed and shall operate to vest, on the date specified in the order (in this Part referred to as the “vesting date”), the interest specified in that order, in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in subsection (2) (which terms and conditions shall apply during the charged period) and the terms and conditions of a charging order.

(2) The terms and conditions referred to in subsection (1) shall include the following:

(a) that the house shall, unless the housing authority gives its prior written consent, be occupied as the normal place of residence of the purchaser or a member of the purchaser’s household;

(b) that the house or any part of it shall not, without the prior written consent of the housing authority be sold, assigned, let or sublet or otherwise disposed of or mortgaged, charged or alienated, otherwise than by devise or operation of law;

(c) terms and conditions relating to the resale of the house under section 29 ;

(d) the purchaser shall not cause any nuisance or allow any person residing in the house to cause any nuisance or be guilty of, or permit, any conduct likely to cause annoyance or disturbance to his or her neighbours and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, shall not engage in, or allow any person residing in the house to engage in, anti-social behaviour;

(e) the purchaser shall not knowingly permit a person, against whom an excluding order under section 3 of the Act of 1997 or an interim excluding order under section 4 of that Act is in force in respect of the house, to enter the house in breach of the excluding order or interim excluding order, as the case may be;

(f) terms and conditions relating to—

(i) maintenance of the house by the purchaser, and

(ii) the provision and maintenance of adequate property insurance by the purchaser in respect of the house;

(g) such other terms and conditions relating to the sale of the house as may be prescribed for the purposes of a transfer order.

(3) Save as provided for by any other enactment or regulations made thereunder, the sale of a house under this Part to a tenant does not imply any warranty on the part of the housing authority in relation to the state of repair or conditions of the house or its fitness for human habitation.

(4) Section 211(2) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001 do not apply to the sale of a house under this Part.