{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-england-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-england-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2767",
  "legislation_title": "The RTM Companies (Model Articles) (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Becoming a member",
  "text": "(1) Every person who is entitled to be, and who wishes to become, a member of the company shall deliver to the company an application for membership executed by him in the following form (or in a form as near to the following form as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the directors may approve:)\nTo the Board of [name of company]I, [name]of [address]am a qualifying tenant of [address of flat] and wish to become a member of [name of company] subject to the provisions of the Articles of Association of the company and to any rules made under those Articles. I agree to pay the company an amount of up to £1 if the company is wound up while I am a member or for up to 12 months after I have ceased to become a member. Signed Dated\n(2) No person shall be admitted to membership of the company unless that person, whether alone or jointly with others, is—\n(a) a qualifying tenant of a flat contained in the Premises as specified in section 75 of the 2002 Act; or\n(b) from the date upon which the company acquires the right to manage the Premises pursuant to the 2002 Act, a landlord under a lease of the whole or any part of the Premises.\n(3) Membership of the company shall not be transferable.\n(4) A person who, together with another or others, is to be regarded as jointly being the qualifying tenant of a flat, or as jointly constituting the landlord under a lease of the whole or any part of the Premises, shall, once admitted, be regarded as jointly being a member of the company in respect of that flat or lease (as the case may be).\n(5) Applications for membership by persons who are to be regarded as jointly being the qualifying tenant of a flat, or who jointly constitute the landlord under a lease of the whole or any part of the Premises, shall state the names and addresses of all others who are jointly interested with them, and the order in which they wish to appear on the register of members (or, if an election under section 128B of the Companies Act 2006 is in force in respect of the company, in the register kept by the registrar under section 1080 of that Act) in respect of such flat or lease (as the case may be.)\n(6) The directors shall, upon being satisfied as to a person’s application and entitlement to membership, register such person as a member of the company.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. art. 26(5) inserted (30.6.2016) by The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Filing Requirements) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/599), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. art. 26 in force at 9.11.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2767/schedule/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:04:26.524322+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."
}