{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/38",
  "legislation_title": "Estate Agents Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estate-agents-act-1979",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Appeals.",
  "text": "(1) A person who receives notice under paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to this Act of—\n(a) a decision of the lead enforcement authority to make an order in respect of him under section 3 or section 4 above, or\n(b) a decision of the lead enforcement authority under subsection (4) or subsection (5) of section 6 above on an application made by him,\nmay appeal against the decision to the First-tier Tribunal.\n(2) On an appeal under subsection (1) above the First-tier Tribunal may give such directions for disposing of the appeal as it thinks just... .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1) substituted (31.3.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(5), Sch. 2 para. 1(4)(d) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(a) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(b)(i) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 7(2) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(b)(ii) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) omitted (1.9.2009) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(b)(iii) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 7(3)-(6) omitted (1.9.2009) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(c) (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 power to transfer functions conferred (19.9.2007) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 30, 35, 148; S.I. 2007/2709, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 7(1): transfer of functions (1.9.2009) by The Transfer of Functions (Estate Agents Appeals and Additional Scheduled Tribunal) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1836), arts. 1(1), 2 (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/38/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:14.771399+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}