The Residential Property Tribunal Procedures and Fees (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

1.  In regulation 2—

(a) at the appropriate places insert—

““the 2015 Act” (“Deddf 2015”) means the Consumer Rights Act 2015(1);”;

““the 2014 Act” (“Deddf 2014”) means the Housing (Wales) Act 2014(2);”;

(b) in the definition of “application”—

(i) at the end of paragraph (c) omit “or”;

(ii) at the end of paragraph (d), for “,” substitute “;”; and

(iii) after paragraph (d), insert—

“(e) sections 17(4) or 27(1) of the 2014 Act; or

(f) the 2015 Act,”;

(c) at the appropriate places insert—

““landlord” (“landlord”), for the purposes of applications under sections 17(4) or 27(1) of the 2014 Act, has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of that Act;”;

““letting agent” (“asiant gosod”), in respect of an application made under the 2015 Act, has the same meaning as in section 84 of the 2015 Act;”;

““licensing authority” (“awdurdod trwyddedu”) has the same meaning as in section 49(1) of the 2014 Act;”;

““local weights and measures authority” (“awdurdod pwysau a mesurau lleol”) in respect of an application made under the 2015 Act, has the same meaning as in section 69(2) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985;”; and

(d) in the definition of “premises”—

(i) in paragraph (a) after “the 2013 Act” insert “or the 2015 Act” and at the end of paragraph (a) omit the word “and”;

(ii) at the end of paragraph (b) insert the word “and”; and

(iii) after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) in an application made under the 2015 Act, any premises at which the letting agency fee, to which an application relates, should have been publicised;”.

(1)

2015 c 15.

(2)

2014 anaw 7.