The Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (Service Charges, Insurance or Appointment of Managers Applications) Order 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes the particulars to be contained in applications to leasehold valuation tribunals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 or the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 where jurisdiction has been conferred on such tribunals by amendments to those Acts made by the Housing Act 1996. The particulars are prescribed in article 2 and Schedules 1 and 2 to this Order.

The particulars prescribed are:

• for a tenant’s application under section 19 of the 1985 Act (limitation of service charges: reasonableness), those in Part I of Schedule 1;

• for a landlord’s application under that provision, those in Part II of that Schedule;

• for an application under section 20C of that Act (limitation of service charges: costs of court proceedings), those in Part III of that Schedule;

• for an application under paragraph 8 of the Schedule to that Act (right to challenge landlord’s choice of insurers), those in Part IV of that Schedule;

• for an application under section 22(3) of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (preliminary notice by tenant), those in Part I of Schedule 2;

• for an application under section 24(1) of that Act (appointment of manager by tribunal), those in Part II of that Schedule; and

• for an application under section 24(9) of that Act (application to vary or discharge an order appointing a manager), those in Part III of that Schedule.

• for an application for leave to appeal, those in article 2(7).