SCHEDULE 1 Consequential provisions – primary legislation

PART 1 Provisions consequential upon transfer of functions from rent assessment committees for areas in England

Rent Act 1977

27.  In section 85(1) (interpretation of Part V)—

(a) in subsection (1), insert the following definition in the appropriate alphabetical place—

““appropriate tribunal” means—

(a)

in relation to a dwelling in England, the First-tier Tribunal or, where determined by or under Tribunal Procedure Rules, the Upper Tribunal; and

(b)

in relation to a dwelling in Wales, a rent assessment committee;”;

(b) in the definition of “register”—

(i) omit “by the president of the rent assessment panel concerned”;

(ii) after “section 79” insert “or 79A”;

(c) omit the definition relating to “rent tribunal”;

(d) in subsection (4), after “section 79(3)” insert “, 79A(3)”.

(1)

Section 85 has been amended by paragraph 45 of Schedule 25 to the Housing Act 1980 (c. 51).