The Residential Property Tribunal Procedures and Fees (England) Regulations 2011

Decisions of a tribunal in determining applications

34.—(1) This regulation applies to a decision determining an application.

(2) If a hearing was held, the decision may be given orally at the hearing.

(3) The tribunal must provide to each party, as soon as reasonably practicable after making a decision which finally disposes of an application, a notice stating the tribunal’s decision (“decision document”).

(4) The decision document must—

(a) be signed and dated by an appropriate person;

(b) set out—

(i) the decision the tribunal has made;

(ii) the reasons for reaching the decision;

(iii) the date of the decision;

(iv) any action that any party to the proceedings must take and the date by which that action must be taken; and

(c) give an explanation of the right of a party to appeal against the decision.

(5) An appropriate person may, by means of a certificate signed and dated by the appropriate person, correct any clerical mistakes in a decision document or any errors or ambiguities arising in it from an accidental slip or omission.

(6) A copy of any correction certified under paragraph (5) must be sent to each party.

(7) In this regulation “appropriate person” means—

(a) the Chair of the tribunal; or

(b) in the event of the absence or incapacity of the Chair of the tribunal, another member of the tribunal.