SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Further provisions regarding empty dwelling management orders

Part 2Final EDMOs

Application to residential property tribunal in respect of breach of management scheme

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1

An affected person may apply to F1the appropriate tribunal for an order requiring the local housing authority to manage a dwelling in accordance with the management scheme contained in a final EDMO made in respect of the dwelling.

2

On such an application the tribunal may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, make an order—

a

requiring the authority to manage the dwelling in accordance with the management scheme, or

b

revoking the final EDMO as from a date specified in the tribunal’s order.

3

An order under sub-paragraph (2) may—

a

set out the steps which the authority are to take to manage the dwelling in accordance with the management scheme,

b

include provision varying the final EDMO, and

c

require the payment of money to an affected person by way of damages.

4

In this paragraph “affected person” means—

a

the relevant proprietor, and

b

any third party to whom compensation is payable by virtue of an order under section 134(4) or 138(2) or a decision of the authority under section 136(4) or 138(3) or who was a lessor, lessee, licensor or licensee under a lease or licence determined by an order of the F2appropriate tribunal under paragraph 22 and to whom compensation is payable by virtue of an order under sub-paragraph (5) of that paragraph.