{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-manage-england-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-manage-england-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1821",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Right to Manage) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-manage-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2008 Regulations” means the Housing (Right to Manage)(England) Regulations 2008;\n“acceptance date” means the date on which a tenant management organisation receives a notice under regulation 11(2)(a) that an authority has accepted its proposal notice;\n“approved assessor” means a person approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of assessing the competence of tenant management organisations under regulation 13(1);\n“approved assessor service” means a person designated by the Secretary of State to appoint an approved assessor on the application of a tenant management organisation under regulation 13(1);\n“area” in relation to a tenant management organisation, means the area specified in its constitution in accordance with regulation 4(1)(b);\n“authority” means the local housing authority on which a proposal notice is served;\n“commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;\n“competence” means the competence of a tenant management organisation to exercise the management functions set out in the offer notice;\n“house” includes—\n(a) part of a house;\n(b) land let together with a house; and\n(c) land held for a purpose related to the house;\n“management functions” has the same meaning as in section 27 of the Housing Act 1985;\n“offer notice” means the offer notice prepared by the authority and TMO under regulation 14;\n“proposal notice” means a notice which complies with regulation 9;\n“support” means the provision or financing by an authority of office accommodation, facilities or training;\n“tenant” means a person who holds a secure tenancy (within the meaning of section 79 of the Housing Act 1985), or other tenancy of a house from an authority;\n“TMO” means a tenant management organisation; and\n“TMO agreement” means an agreement required to be made between an authority and a tenant management organisation under regulation 16.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 6.8.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“House” is defined for the purposes of Part 2 of the Housing Act 1985, in section 56 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1821/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:42.840235+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."
}