The New Towns (Transfer of Housing Stock) Regulations 1990

Tenant consultation

13.—(1) The new town corporation shall appoint a person (in this regulation called “the teller”) independent of themselves, the authority and any approved person to conduct any consultation under regulation 12 and shall give the teller such information and assistance as the teller shall reasonably require.

(2) The teller shall send to each tenant being consulted—

(a) a statement prepared by the corporation explaining the operation and purpose of the ballot; and

(b) a voting form; and

(c) separate statements, approved by the corporation but prepared by the authority and the approved person who served the notice in reply referred to in regulation 11(2), stating their intentions in relation to the dwellings they may acquire and the address and telephone number from which the tenants may seek further information; and

(d) a reply-paid envelope for the return of the voting form to the teller.

(3) The teller shall, on the basis of voting forms received by him before the end of such reasonable period as is specified in the statement mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) (which may be a different period for different tenants), inform the corporation of the result of the consultation and shall send a notice to each tenant recording his vote or that no vote is recorded for that tenant.

(4) Every person who is a tenant on the first day on which the teller sends documents to any tenants under paragraph (2) pursuant to a consultation regarding a transfer of dwellings which might be made to a particular approved person shall be consulted under that consultation, except any tenant who at that date either—

(a) is obliged to give up possession of the dwelling in pursuance of an order of the court; or

(b) will be so obliged at a date specified in such an order,

unless in either case the corporation certify to the teller that they no longer intend to enforce the order.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation, joint tenants shall be entitled to one vote to be exercised jointly, and shall be sent one copy of the documents specified in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(6) The corporation shall pay—

(a) the reasonable fees and expenses of the teller; and

(b) a reasonable amount in respect of the costs of the authority and the approved person incurred in the preparation of the statement mentioned in paragraph (2)(c) and in answering queries from tenants.