The Regulation of Private Rented Housing (Rent Repayment Orders) (Supplementary Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Application of amounts recovered under a rent repayment order

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the authority may apply an amount recovered under a rent repayment order for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (2).

(2) The purposes are the reimbursement of the authority’s costs and expenses (whether administrative or legal) incurred in, or associated with—

(a) the making of the application under section 32(1) of the Act;

(b) dealing with any application for a licence under Part 1 of the Act (Regulation of private rented housing);

(c) the prosecution of the appropriate person for an offence under section 7(5) of the Act or, as the case may be, section 13(3) of the Act (whether proceedings are instituted before or after the making of the order).

(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) authorises the application of an amount by way of reimbursement of an authority’s costs or expenses where those costs or expenses have already been paid by or on behalf of the appropriate person.