The Residential Property Tribunal Procedure (England) Regulations 2006

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Housing Act 2004;

“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 1985(1);

“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 2006(2);

“IMO authorisation application” means an application for authorisation to make an interim management order(3);

“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—

(i)

section 73(7);

(ii)

section 96(7);

(iii)

paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 1; or

(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—

(i)

section 34(4); or

(ii)

section 317(2);

(d)

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

“LHA” means the local housing authority(4);

“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.

(1)

1985 c. 68.

(2)

S.I. 2006/830.

(3)

For the meaning of “interim management order” see section 101(3) of the Act, and for authorisations to make such an order see section 102(4) and (7).

(4)

For the meaning of “local housing authority” see section 261(2) of the Act.