88B   Premises not to be sold in certain circumstances

Where:

(a)  a lessee of prescribed premises who is in receipt of a pension under the Social Services Consolidation Act 1947 (as amended by subsequent Acts) of the Parliament of the Commonwealth vacates those premises, otherwise than by reason of an order made under Part 3,

(b)  that lessee is, by reason of his or her vacating the prescribed premises, granted a lease by the Housing Commission of New South Wales of premises provided by that Commission, and

(c)  that Commission notifies, in writing, the lessor of the prescribed premises that it has so granted such a lease,

the lessor of the prescribed premises shall not, within a period of three years after the lessee vacates the prescribed premises, sell those premises unless, on an application made to the Local Court, the Court has consented to the sale.