The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999

PART I General

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 11th February 1999.

(2) In these Regulations–

“the authority” means the local housing authority which has made the decision whose review under section 164 or 202 has been requested;

“the Decisions on Referrals Order” means the Homelessness (Decisions on Referrals) Order 1998(1);

“the reviewer” means–

(a)

where the original decision falls within section 202(1)(a), (b), (c), (e) or (f), the authority;

(b)

where the original decision falls within section 202(1)(d) (a decision under section 198(5) whether the conditions are met for referral of a case)–

(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 7, where the case falls within that regulation.

(3) In these Regulations, references to sections are references to sections of the Housing Act 1996.

Who is to make the decision on the review

2.  Where the decision of the authority on a review of an original decision made by an officer of the authority is also to be made by an officer, that officer shall be someone who was not involved in the original decision and who is senior to the officer who made the original decision.

(1)

S.I. 1998/1578.