LegalizeThe Homeowner Housing Panel (Applications and Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2012
Made: 29th May 2012
Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 31st May 2012
Coming into force: 1st October 2012
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PART 1 — Preliminary
Citation and commencement
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Interpretation
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The overriding objective
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Application of the overriding objective
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PART 2 — Applications to the panel
Application
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Required attachments to application
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Representation
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PART 3 — Process of the application
Action by the panel
Notification of referral to committee
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Action by the committee
Hearing applications together
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Inquiries
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Evidence
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Lodging of documents etc.
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Directions
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Correction of documents issued by the committee
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Withdrawal of the application
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Inspections
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Hearings
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Power to determine the proceedings without an oral hearing
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Exclusion of persons disrupting proceedings
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Prohibition of recording of proceedings by parties
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Adjournment of a hearing on an application by a party
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Amendment
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Hearing case in the absence of a party
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Absence of a member of the committee
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Death or incapacity of a homeowner or property factor
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Decision
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Signature of documents
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Transitional
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Signed
KEITH BROWN — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 29th May 2012
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2011 asp 8 (“2011 Act”).
[^f00002]: 2007 c.15. The private rented housing panel (whose functions are extended by section 16(1) of the 2011 Act) is a listed tribunal by virtue of SSI 2007/436.
[^f00003]: Homeowner housing committees are constituted under Schedule 4 to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (c.58), and given additional functions and re-named for the purposes of the 2011 Act by section 16(2) of that Act.
[^f00004]: 2000 c.7. Section 15(1) was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c.21).
[^f00005]: The homeowner housing panel is constituted under Schedule 4 to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984, and given additional functions and re-named for the purposes of the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 by section 16(2) of that Act.
[^f00006]: 1984 c.58.
Editorial notes
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