Interpretation2.

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Housing Act 2004;

“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 19853;

“application” means an application or appeal to a tribunal under the Act or Part 9 of the 1985 Act and “applicant” bears a corresponding meaning;

“case management conference” means a pre-trial review or any other meeting held by a tribunal for the purpose of managing the proceedings in respect of an application;

“the Fees Regulations” means the Residential Property Tribunals (Fees)(England) Regulations 20064;
“IMO authorisation application” means an application for authorisation to make an interim management order5;

“interested person” means in relation to a particular application—

(a)

a person other than the applicant who would have been entitled under the Act or the 1985 Act (as the case may be) to make the application;

(b)

a person to whom notice of the application must be given by the applicant in accordance with the following provisions of the Act—

  1. (i)

    section 73(7);

  2. (ii)

    section 96(7);

  3. (iii)

    paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 1; or

  4. (iv)

    paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 3;

(c)

a person to whom the tribunal must give the opportunity of being heard in accordance with the following provisions of the Act—

  1. (i)

    section 34(4); or

  2. (ii)

    section 317(2);

(d)

the LHA where it is not a party to the application;

“LHA” means the local housing authority6;

“premises” means the dwelling or building to which the application relates;

“the respondent” means, in respect of an application to which a paragraph of the Schedule to these Regulations applies, the person or persons, or one of the persons, specified in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph;

“statement of reasons” means a statement of reasons prepared by the LHA under section 8 of the Act (reasons for decision to take enforcement action); and

“tribunal” means a residential property tribunal, and “the tribunal” in relation to an application means the tribunal by which the application is to be determined.