The Housing Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2018

Basis of remuneration

6.10.—(1) A housing administrator is entitled to receive remuneration for services provided as housing administrator.

(2) The basis of such remuneration is to be fixed by reference to the time properly given by the housing administrator and the housing administrator’s staff in attending to matters arising in the housing administration.

(3) The housing administrator’s remuneration must, on the housing administrator’s application, be fixed by the court.

(4) The housing administrator must give at least 14 days’ notice of the application made under paragraph (3) to the following who may appear or be represented—

(a) the Secretary of State;

(b) the Regulator of Social Housing; and

(c) the creditors of the registered provider.

(5) In fixing the remuneration, the court must have regard to the following matters—

(a) the complexity (or otherwise) of the case;

(b) any respects in which, in connection with a registered provider’s affairs, there falls on the housing administrator any responsibility of an exceptional kind or degree;

(c) the effectiveness with which the housing administrator appears to be carrying out, or to have carried out, the housing administrator’s duties as such; and

(d) the value and nature of the property with which the housing administrator has had to deal.

(6) Where there are joint housing administrators, it is for them to agree between themselves as to how the remuneration payable should be apportioned and any dispute arising between them may be referred to the court, for settlement by order.

(7) If the housing administrator is a solicitor and employs the housing administrator’s own firm, or any partner in it, to act on behalf of the registered provider, profit costs must not be paid unless this is authorised by the court.