7.—(1) Subject to regulation 8 and the following paragraphs, the applicant shall be liable to pay any fee payable to a tribunal under these Regulations.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where an application is made or transferred proceedings are brought by more than one person, any fee payable under regulations 3 or 4 for the application or transferred proceedings shall be apportioned equally between those persons and each person shall be liable to pay one portion.
(3) Where —
(a)an application is made or transferred proceedings are brought by the tenant or the landlord of premises; and
(b)the tenant or landlord is more than one person,
those persons together shall be treated as one person for the purposes of paragraph (2).
(4) Where two or more applications are heard together, other than applications which are heard with a representative application, any fee payable under regulation 5 for the hearing shall be apportioned equally between the applications and, subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) and (6) and regulation 8, the applicant in each application shall be liable to pay one portion.
(5) Any fee payable under regulation 5 for the hearing of a representative application and any application heard with the representative application shall be apportioned equally between —
(a)the representative application;
(b)all other applications which, at the time of the request for payment of the fee, are to be determined in whole or in part in accordance with the representative application; and
(c)any application heard with the representative application,
and, subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) and (6) and regulation 8, the applicant in each application shall be liable to pay one portion of the fee.
(6) The amount payable by any person in respect of a fee shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of this article and by reference to the persons who are applicants on the date the application is made or the date of the request for payment issued by the tribunal.
(7) In this regulation, “applicant” includes any person, whose request under regulation 6 of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2004 to be joined as a party to the proceedings and treated as an applicant, has been granted by the tribunal.