{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-change-of-landlord-regulations-1989/regulation-17.json",
  "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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Prescribed manner for tenants to indicate their wishes",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a tenant giving notice of his wish to continue as the tenant of the landlord or to become the tenant of the applicant shall complete the decision notice and shall within the consultation period return such notice to the teller by one of the following methods –\n(a) by post;\n(b) by delivering the notice to the teller.\n(2) Where a tenant has been supplied by the applicant with an absentee’s notice of decision in accordance with regulation 16(7) he shall give notice of his wish by completing that notice of decision and returning it by post or by delivering it to the applicant within the consultation period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1033",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Change of Landlord) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/367/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:22.630383+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}