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Section 1

General terms

This is your Tenancy Agreement. It is a legally binding document which sets out your
rights and responsibilities as one of our tenants.
It is an important legal document and should be kept in a safe place.

Conditions of Tenancy are marked in red text as they are important, and you must
comply with them.
If you break any of these tenancy conditions we may have to take legal action against
you in the courts. This could lead to you losing your home.

For further explanation of anything contained in this document, please see our website.
Where ‘you’ is used in this agreement, it means you, all members of your household and
any visitors to your property.

Where ‘we’ or ‘us’ is used in this agreement it means Enfield Council or any agent acting
on its behalf.

1.1 Interpretation In this agreement, ‘you’ always means you, the
Unless the contrary is stated or implied, the rights tenant, or - in the case of joint tenancies - any or
and obligations set out in this agreement are all of the joint tenants. Sometimes ‘you’ will
intended to replicate the rights and obligations include members of your household and visitors
established by statute, for example, the Housing to your home. In this agreement, ‘we’ or ‘us’
Act 1985, Part IV. The contrary may be implied means the London Borough of Enfield and its
where, for example, rights and obligations are set agents or representatives.
out in the contract that either are not addressed
by statute or where the statute gives the council 1.3 Personal information and
discretion. photographs

Fair Processing Notice
1.2 What this agreement means We collect and process personal information to
By signing the Tenancy Agreement you are allow us to allocate homes and manage and
entering into a legal contract with us to keep to all improve services. This may involve sharing your
the conditions of your tenancy set out in this personal data with other organisations that are
document. contracted to carry out services on our behalf.
This includes services provided to you such as
This agreement is for both introductory and repairs but also services delivered to us such as
secure tenancies. If your tenancy is an fraud detection provided by credit reference
introductory one, you do not have all the rights agencies. These organisations are obliged to
that you will have when your tenancy is secure. keep your personal details secure. When we
The section below, under the heading share information, we will draw up an agreement
‘Introductory tenancies’, outlines the rights you with the organisation that we need to share the
do have as an introductory tenant. Whether you information with. This is so that both sides
are an introductory or a secure tenant, all the understand why the information is being passed
conditions will apply. on, and what it can be used for.

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