The Homelessness (Review Procedure etc.) Regulations 2018

Interpretation of this Part

4.  In this Part—

“A” means the applicant(1);

“the authority” means the local housing authority who made the original decision;

“notified authority” means a local housing authority who receive a notification under section 198(A1) or (1)(2);

“notifying authority” means a local housing authority who give a notification under section 198(A1) or (1);

“original decision” means a decision of a local housing authority in relation to which a request for a review has been made;

“request for a review” means a request for a review made under section 202(3);

“the reviewer” means—

(a)

where the original decision falls within section 202(1)(d)—

(i)

the notifying authority and the notified authority, where the review is carried out by those authorities,

(ii)

the person appointed to carry out the review in accordance with regulation 6, where the case falls within that regulation,

(b)

where the original decision falls within any other sub-paragraph of section 202(1), the authority.

(1)

See section 183(2) of the Act for the definition of ‘applicant’.

(2)

Section 198(A1) was inserted by section 5(8) of the Act.

(3)

Section 202 was amended by section 8(2) of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to, the Homelessness Act 2002 (c.7); by paragraph 7(2) and (3) of Schedule 15, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 16, to the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c.17); by section 149(9) of the Localism Act 2011 (c.20); and by section 9 of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.