{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-manage-england-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-manage-england-regulations-2012/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Definition and general duties of tenant management organisations",
  "text": "(1) A tenant management organisation is an organisation which satisfies the following conditions —\n(a) it has a constitution in written form;\n(b) its constitution specifies an area in relation to which it seeks to enter into a TMO agreement with an authority;\n(c) its constitution provides that any tenant of a house in that area may become a member of the TMO;\n(d) its constitution provides that, in conducting its affairs, the TMO must avoid any unlawful discrimination;\n(e) its constitution provides that the affairs of the TMO must be conducted either—\n(i) by the members of the TMO at a general meeting; or\n(ii) by a committee or board of directors elected by members of the TMO.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a TMO—\n(a) is not disqualified from being a TMO if its constitution contains provision for matters other than those specified in paragraph (1); and\n(b) does not cease to be a TMO if its constitution is at any time amended to contain such provision.\n(3) In exercising its functions under these Regulations, a TMO—\n(a) must act in accordance with the provisions of its constitution relevant to the exercise of its functions under these Regulations; and\n(b) must have regard to any guidance provided from time to time by the Secretary of State relevant to the exercise of its functions under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 6.8.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 27AB(8) of the Housing Act 1985."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1821/regulation/4",
    "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."
}