{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/section-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/section-4A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/28",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993",
  "path": "section/4A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "RTE companies",
  "text": "(1) A company is a RTE company in relation to premises if—\n(a) it is a private company limited by guarantee, and\n(b) its articles of association state that its object, or one of its objects, is the exercise of the right to collective enfranchisement with respect to the premises.\n(2) But a company is not a RTE company if it is a commonhold association (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002).\n(3) And a company is not a RTE company in relation to premises if another company which is a RTE company in relation to—\n(a) the premises, or\n(b) any premises containing or contained in the premises,\nhas given a notice under section 13 with respect to the premises, or any premises containing or contained in the premises, and the notice continues in force in accordance with subsection (11) of that section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 4A-4C inserted (26.7.2002 for E. for specified purposes, 1.1.2003 for W. for specified purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (c. 15), s. 122; S.I. 2002/1912, art. 2(c) (subject to Sch. 2); S. I. 2002/3012, art. 2(c) (subject to Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4A(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 140(2) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/section/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:01.928287+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."
}