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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-england-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/130",
  "legislation_title": "The RTM Companies (Model Articles) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-england-amendment-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the RTM Companies (Model Articles) (England) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2767) (“the 2009 Regulations”), which apply to RTM companies that exercise the right to manage premises in England. They amend the content of the articles of association of RTM companies (“the Model Articles”). The amendments are made partly in consequence of section 49 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (c. 22) (“the 2024 Act”), which increases the non-residential threshold that qualifies premises for the ‘Right to Manage’ (the statutory right for long leaseholders to take over the management functions in respect of their building from their landlord in certain cases).\nRegulation 2 amends articles 1 and 33 of the Model Articles. It specifies that “lease” means a long lease within the meaning of sections 76 and 77 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (c. 15). It amends the entitlement to a vote of a landlord under a lease who is not otherwise entitled to a vote, which previously gave a vote to a landlord who is a member of the RTM company, to require that they must also be the freeholder of the premises. Finally, it provides that the votes of landlords under leases of the whole or any part of the premises are capped at one third of the votes exercisable by qualifying tenants.\nBy virtue of regulation 2(2) of the 2009 Regulations, the amendments have effect for a RTM company whether or not they are adopted by the company.\nA full impact assessment has been published in relation to the 2024 Act and copies can be obtained at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-04/0013/LeaseholdandFreeholdReformBillImpactAssessment.pdf or from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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