(1)An agreement to which this Act applies shall be binding on and enure for the benefit of any successor in title of the owner and any person claiming through or under the owner or any such successor.
(2)Where an agreement to which this Act applies is lawfully assigned to any person, the agreement shall enure for the benefit of and be binding on that person.
(3)Where a person entitled to the benefit of and bound by an agreement to which this Act applies dies at a time when he is occupying the mobile home as his only or main residence, the agreement shall enure for the benefit of and be binding on—
(a)any person residing with that person (“the deceased”) at that time being—
(i)the widow [F1, widower or surviving civil partner] of the deceased; or
(ii)in default of a widow [F1, widower or surviving civil partner] so residing, any member of the deceased’s family; or
(b)in default of any such person so residing, the person entitled to the mobile home by virtue of the deceased’s will or under the law relating to intestacy but subject to subsection (4) below.
(4)An agreement to which this Act applies shall not enure for the benefit of or be binding on a person by virtue of subsection (3)(b) above in so far as—
(a)it would, but for this subsection, enable or require that person to occupy the mobile home; or
(b)F2... it includes terms implied by virtue of paragraph 5 [F3, 8A, 8B or 9] [F4of Chapter 2, or paragraph 5 of Chapter 4,] of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act F2...
F5(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 3(3) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 87; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)
F2Words in s. 3(4)(b) omitted (W.) (1.10.2014) by virtue of Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 6), s. 64(1), Sch. 4 para. 4(6)(a) (with Sch. 5 para. 7); S.I. 2014/11, art. 3(2)
F3Words in s. 3(4)(b) substituted (E.W.) (27.5.2013) by Mobile Homes Act 2013 (c. 14), ss. 10(7), 15(3) (with savings in S.I. 2013/1168, reg. 2)
F4Words in s. 3(4)(b) inserted (E.) (30.4.2011) by The Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment of Schedule 1 and Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1003), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(3) (with art. 1(3))
F5S. 3(4)(c) omitted (W.) (1.10.2014) by virtue of Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 6), s. 64(1), Sch. 4 para. 4(6)(b) (with Sch. 5 para. 7); S.I. 2014/11, art. 3(2)