Qualified persons: co-operative housing associationsS
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12(1)This paragraph applies where the landlord is a registered social landlord which is a co-operative housing association.
(2)A qualified person who is entitled to the benefit of paragraph 6, 7 or 8 must, within 4 weeks of the tenant’s death or, where the qualified person was given notice under paragraph 10, within 4 weeks of the date on which that notice was given, apply for membership of the co-operative housing association.
(3)Where a qualified person—
(a)fails to comply with sub-paragraph (2), or
(b)complies with that sub-paragraph but the co-operative housing association refuses the application for membership,
the person is to be treated as having declined the tenancy at the time of the tenant’s death.