Rent Act 1977

Section 65.

SCHEDULE 10 E+W Rent Assessment Committees

1 E+W The Secretary of State shall draw up and from time to time revise panels of persons to act as chairmen and other members of rent assessment committees for such areas, comprising together every registration area, as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine.

2 E+W Each panel shall consist of a number of persons appointed by the Lord Chancellor and a number of persons appointed by the Secretary of State . . . F1 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 26

[F2 2A E+W No appointment of a person to any panel by the Lord Chancellor shall be such as to extend beyond the day on which the person attains the age of seventy years; but this sub-paragraph is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of seventy-five years).]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 10 para. 2A inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26(10), Sch. 6 para.56 (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

3 E+W The Secretary of State shall nominate one of the persons appointed by the Lord Chancellor to act as president of the panel, and one or more such persons to act as vice-president or vice-presidents.

4 E+W Subject to this Schedule, the number of rent assessment committees to act for an area and the consitution of those committees shall be determined by the president of the panel formed for that area or, in the case of the president’s absence or incapacity, by the vice-president or, as the case may be, one of the vice-presidents.

5 E+W Subject to [F3 paragraphs 6 and 6A] below, each rent assessment committee shall consist of a chairman and one or two other members, and the chairman shall be either the president or vice-president (or, as the case may be, one of the vice-presidents) of the panel or one of the other members appointed by the Lord Chancellor.

Textual Amendments

F3 Words substituted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 71(2)

6 E+W The president of the panel may, if he thinks fit, direct that when dealing with such cases or dealing with a case in such circumstances as may be specified in the direction, the chairman sitting alone may, with the consent of the parties, exercise the functions of a rent assessment committee.

[F4 6A E+W When dealing with an application under section 81A of this Act a rent assessment committee carrying out the functions of a rent tribunal shall consist of the chairman of the committee sitting alone.]

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. 10 para. 6A inserted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 71(2)

7 There shall be paid to members of panels such remuneration and allowances as the Secretary of State, with the consent of [F5 the Treasury], may determine.

Textual Amendments

F5 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(2), 3(5)

[F6 7A The Secretary of State may, with the consent of [F7 the Treasury], provide for the payment of pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any person nominated to act as president or vice-president of a panel.]

Textual Amendments

F6 Sch. 10 para. 7A inserted by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), s. 148

F7 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(2), 3(5)

8 The President of the panel may appoint, with the approval of the Secretary of State as to numbers, such clerks and other officers and servants of rent assessment committees as he thinks fit, and there shall be paid to the clerks and other officers and servants such salaries and allowances as the Secretary of State, with the consent of [F8 the Treasury], may determine.

Textual Amendments

F8 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(2), 3(5)

9 There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a) the remuneration and allowances of members of panels;

(b) the salaries and allowances of clerks and other officers and servants appointed under this Schedule; and

(c) such other expenses of a panel as [F9 the Treasury] may determine.

Textual Amendments

F9 Words substituted by virtue of S.1. 1981/1670, arts. 2(2), 3(5)

10 E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

Textual Amendments

F10 Ss. 15(6), 17, 18(3)(4), 24(1)(2), 27–43, 50, 53, 67(6), 70(5), 76, 79(4), 86(5), 91, 92(6)(7), 108–113, 115, 117, 130, 133–135, 141(2), 155(1), Sch. 1 para. 8, Schs. 3, 4, 6, Sch. 7 para. 4, Sch. 10 para. 10, Sch. 11 paras. 13, 14 and 15–25, Sch. 13, Sch. 14 para. 6, Sch. 17 paras. 10, 11, Sch. 19, Sch. 20 paras. 1(6)(7), 4, Schs. 21, 22, Sch. 23 paras.1, 4(g)–(i), 37, 38 repealed by Housing Act 1980 (c. 51, SIF 61), Sch. 26