Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 Explanatory Notes

Section 237 - Grounds for award

685.This section specifies the grounds on which the regulator may require a registered provider to pay compensation. The regulator must be satisfied either that the registered provider has failed to meet a standard of social housing established by the regulator under sections 193 or 194 of this Part, or that the registered provider has failed to comply with an undertaking under section 125 that it has given to the regulator.

686.The regulator must also be satisfied that requiring a registered provider to pay compensation is appropriate, whether alone or in combination with the use of one or more of the regulator’s other enforcement powers.

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