230.Section 92 allows the local authority to vary a licence if there is a change of circumstances or with the agreement of the licence holder.
231.Section 93 provides for the circumstances in which an LHA may revoke a licence. These include:
with the agreement of the licence holder e.g. because a new licence is to be granted to some other person
where the house ceases to be a Part 3 house and/or is granted an HMO licence under Part 2.
where the licence holder has committed a serious breach of a condition of the licence or repeated breaches of such a condition
where the LHA no longer believes that the licence holder is a fit and proper person or that the management of the house is no longer being carried out by fit and proper persons.
where the LHA believes the property is no longer meets the standards required for a licence.
232.There is also a power for the appropriate national authority to make regulations setting out other circumstances in which a licence may be revoked.
233.Part 2 of Schedule 5 sets out the procedure to be followed in respect of a variation or revocation of a licence and Part 3 of Schedule 5 sets out the right of appeal to the RPT against variation and revocation decisions.
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