SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Residential property tribunals: procedure

Determination without hearing

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1

Procedure regulations may include provision for the determination of applications, appeals or transferred proceedings without an oral hearing.

2

Procedure regulations may include provision enabling a single qualified member of the panel to decide whether an oral hearing is appropriate in a particular case.

3

Procedure regulations may provide for a single qualified member of the panel to make determinations without an oral hearing.

4

For the purposes of this paragraph—

a

a person is a qualified member of the panel if he was appointed to it by the Lord Chancellor; and

b

“the panel” means the panel provided for in Schedule 10 to the Rent Act 1977 (c. 42).