The Homelessness (Review Procedure etc.) Regulations 2018

Notification of the decision on a review

9.—(1) Notice of the decision on a review under section 203(3) must be given to A—

(a) where the original decision falls within—

(i) section 202(1)(ba)(i) or (bc), or

(ii) section 202(1)(bb) and the effect of the notice given under section 193B(2) is to bring the authority’s duty to A under section 195(2) to an end,

three weeks beginning with the day on which the request for the review is made or, where A makes representations under regulation 7, beginning with the day on which those representations are received,

(b) where the original decision falls within—

(i) section 202(1)(a), (b), (ba)(ii), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h), or

(ii) section 202(1)(bb) and the effect of the notice given under section 193B(2) is to bring the authority’s duty to A under section 189B(2)(1) to an end,

eight weeks beginning with the day on which the request for the review is made,

(c) where the original decision falls within section 202(1)(d) and the review is carried out by the notifying authority and the notified authority, ten weeks beginning with the day on which the request for the review is made,

(d) in a case falling within regulation 6, twelve weeks beginning with the day on which the request for the review is made,

or within such longer period as A and the reviewer may agree in writing.

(2) In a case falling within regulation 6, the appointed person must notify their decision on the review and the reasons for it, in writing, to the notifying authority and the notified authority—

(a) within a period of eleven weeks beginning with the day on which the request for the review is made, or

(b) where a longer period has been agreed in accordance with paragraph (1), by no later than one week before the expiry of that longer period.

(1)

Section 189B was inserted by section 5(2) of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.