The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees (Amendment) Order 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 182

Tribunals And Inquiries, England

The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees (Amendment) Order 2014

Made

30th January 2014

Laid before Parliament

3rd February 2014

Coming into force

25th February 2014

The Lord Chancellor makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(1).

The Lord Chancellor has consulted the Senior President of Tribunals in accordance with section 42(5) before making this Order and has obtained the consent of the Treasury in accordance with section 42(6).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees (Amendment) Order 2014 and shall come into force on 25th February 2014.

Amendments to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees Order 2013

2.—(1) Schedule 1 (fees to be taken) to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) Fees Order 2013(2) is amended as follows.

(2) At the end of entry 3, insert “and the Mobile Homes (Site Rules) (England) Regulations 2014(3)”.

(3) After entry 3.1 insert—

“3.1A On an application made under regulation 10 or 17 of the Mobile Homes (Site Rules) (England) Regulations 2014 (site rules and deposit appeals)	£155
3.1B On an application under paragraph 7B(2) or 8B(2) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Mobile Homes Act 1983(4) made on the grounds prescribed by regulation 7(1) or (2) of the Mobile Homes (Selling and Gifting) (England) Regulations 2013(5) as applicable (owner’s application for a refusal order)	£155”

(4) In the entry “Note on fees 3.1 to 3.6” omit “made under the Mobile Homes Act 1983”.

(5) In the entry “Note on fees 3.2 to 3.6”, for the words from “The number of references contained” to “mobile homes to which the application relates” substitute “The number of references contained in an application is the number of pitches or mobile homes to which the application relates”.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Shailesh Vara

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

29th January 2014

We consent

Stephen Crabb

David Evennett

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

30th January 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Mobile Homes Act 2013 amended the Mobile Homes Act 1983 to create a number of new grounds on which applications can be made to the Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal in respect of mobile home sites. This Order specifies the fees payable in respect of those applications.

This Order also simplifies how a fee is calculated when an application is made in respect of more than one pitch or mobile home. In future, the fee charged for an application will be calculated only by reference to the number of pitches or mobile homes to which those applications relate.

(1)

2007 c. 15.

(2)

S.I. 2013/1179, as amended by S.I. 2013/2302.

(3)

S.I. 2014/5.

(4)

1983 c. 34; paragraphs 7B and 8B of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 were inserted by the Mobile Homes Act 2013 (c. 14), sections 10(1), (2) and (5).

(5)

S.I. 2013/981.