{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/367",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Change of Landlord) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Prescribed provisions as to consultation",
  "text": "(1) The applicant shall, within seven weeks of the beginning of the consultation period, serve on each tenant to whom section 102 applies who has not given a notification in accordance with paragraph (7) below the information specified in and in accordance with Schedule 3.\n(2) The applicant shall engage a person independent from him (in these Regulations referred to as the “teller”) to whom the tenants consulted under section 102 shall give notice of whether or not they wish to continue as tenants of the landlord.\n(3) The applicant shall secure that the teller shall, not sooner than 7 days or later than 10 days from the service of the information described in paragraph (1) above, serve on each tenant referred to in that paragraph (or, where the tenancy is held by two or more persons jointly, those tenants jointly) –\n(a) a notice for giving notice of his (or their) wishes (in the form prescribed by regulation 3(g) (form 7) of the Housing (Change of Landlord) (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1989) (in this and the following regulation referred to as “the notice of decision”);\n(b) a description of the provisions in regulation 17 below;\n(c) a reply paid envelope for return of the notice to the teller by post;\n(d) a statement as to the nature of his tenancy, and the consequences for him of giving notice of a wish to continue as the tenant of the landlord or of a wish to become a tenant of the applicant, or of giving no notice in the event that the acquisition takes place.\n(4) The applicant shall secure that anything required by this regulation to be served on the tenant is served on him at his address at the property proposed to be included in the acquisition or, if he notifies the applicant before the service of the information referred to in paragraph (1) above that he wishes to be served at a different address, at that address.\n(5) The applicant shall secure that, where a tenant served with information in accordance with paragraph (1) above has not within a period of four weeks beginning with the date of service of that information returned the form giving notice of his wishes, the teller shall use his best endeavours to visit the tenant within the consultation period to explain the effect of regulation 17 and the consequences of failure to give notice of his wishes.\n(6) Where a tenant provides the applicant with a certificate as described in regulation 8(1)(b) or (c), (8)(2) or 15(c) above after the applicant has complied with paragraph (1) above in relation to other tenants, the applicant shall within seven days of that provision serve on the tenant the information specified in Schedule 3, and shall secure that the teller shall, within those seven days, serve on the tenant the items referred to in paragraph (3) above, but the applicant need not comply with paragraph (5) above.\n(7) Where, before the service of the information referred to in regulation 16(1), a tenant other than a joint tenant notifies the applicant that he will, or is likely to, be absent from the property in which he holds his tenancy during the whole or a substantial part of the period between that notification and the end of the consultation period, and there is no convenient different address for service, the applicant shall, after the beginning of the consultation period, supply that tenant with an absentee’s notice of decision, and a reply paid envelope for the return of the notice to the applicant by post, and where the tenant within the consultation period returns the notice by post or by delivering it to the applicant, he shall give it unopened to the teller.\n(8) In this and the following regulation “an absentee’s notice of decision” means the notice for giving notice of a tenant’s wishes prescribed by regulation 3(f) (form 6) of the Housing (Change of Landlord) (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/374."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1033",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Change of Landlord) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/367/regulation/16",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}