The Residential Property Tribunal Procedure (Wales) Regulations 2006

Decisions of the Tribunal in determining applications

31.—(1) This regulation applies to the decision determining an application.

(2) If a hearing was held, the decision may be given orally at the end of the hearing.

(3) A decision must, in every case, be recorded in a document as soon as practicable after the decision has been made.

(4) A decision given or recorded in accordance with paragraph (2) or (3) need not record the reasons for the decision.

(5) The reasons for the decision must be recorded in a document as soon as practicable after the decision has been given or recorded.

(6) A document recording a decision or the reasons for a decision (a “decision document”), must be signed and dated by an appropriate person.

(7) An appropriate person may, by means of a certificate signed and dated by that person, correct any clerical mistakes in a decision document or any errors arising in it from an accidental slip or omission.

(8) In this regulation “appropriate person” (“person priodol”) means—

(a) the Chair of the tribunal; or

(b) in the event of the chair’s absence or incapacity, another member of the tribunal.

(9) A copy of any decision document, and a copy of any correction certified under paragraph (7) must be sent to each party.