Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Residential Property Tribunal Service (or RPTS) was an administrative organisation which provided support for three statutory tribunals and five regional rent assessment panels in England, all of which make decisions on residential property matters. [1] Its tribunals were replaced by the First-tier Tribunal from 1 July 2013, [2] by the ...
Rent Repayment Orders are not obtained through the court's system but through a Residential Property Tribunal. Housing academic David Cowan writing in Housing Law and Policy cites the case Newham London Borough Council v Ring to demonstrate that a local authority can use a rent repayment order to reclaim housing benefit. [5]
Rent assessment committees still exist in Wales, as part of the Residential Property Tribunal Wales. It consists of two or three tribunal members, [10] and operates under the provisions of the Rent Act 1977, hearing appeals from a landlord or tenant on the decisions of the local council rent officer on whether the rent charged is fair. [11]
Such members also sat on rent assessment committees which determined Fair Rents under s. 70 of the Rent Act 1977, rent tribunals under the same Act which determined rents payable under Restricted Contracts (room lettings) and residential property tribunals which were created by the Housing Act 2004.
Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales; Residential Property Tribunal for Wales; Welsh Language Tribunal - deal with appeals against decisions by the Welsh Language Commissioner in relation to Welsh Language Standards. [9] The Valuation Tribunal for Wales is self-administered. [10]
In 1980 the original jurisdiction was transferred to the newly created leasehold valuation tribunals with the Lands Tribunal becoming the appellate tribunal on such disputes. The Lands Tribunal also had a general appellate jurisdiction in relation to decisions of the leasehold valuation tribunals and residential property tribunals.
The Residential Property Tribunal Wales (RPTW) is a collective of tribunals sponsored by the Welsh Government that deal with disputes related to housing and residential property. [ 1 ] It was established by the Housing Act 2004 and also has powers under the Mobile Homes Act 1983 and Rent Act 1977 .
The history of rent control in England and Wales is a part of English land law concerning the development of rent regulation in England and Wales.Controlling the prices that landlords could make their tenants pay formed the main element of rent regulation, and was in place from 1915 until its abolition (excluding some council houses) by the Housing Act 1988.