Regulation 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

The title of these Regulations is the Homelessness (Review Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2015.

These Regulations come into force on 27 April 2015.

In these Regulations—

• “the authority” (“yr awdurdod”) means—

  1. (a)

     the local housing authority which made the decision whose review under section 85 has been requested, or

  2. (b)

     the notifying authority if the said decision was made under section 80(5) (a decision as to whether the conditions are met for the referral of a case to another local housing authority);

• “the Decisions on Referrals Order” (“y Gorchymyn Penderfyniadau ynghylch Atgyfeiriadau”) means the Homelessness (Decisions on Referrals) Order 1998^f1;

• “the reviewer” (“yr adolygwr”) means—

  1. (a)

     where the original decision is not made under section 80(5), the authority;

  2. (b)

     where the original decision is made under section 80(5) (a decision whether the conditions are met for the referral of a case)—

     1. (i)

        the notifying authority and the notified authority, where the review is carried out by those authorities; or

     2. (ii)

        the person appointed to carry out the review in accordance with regulation 4, where a case falls within that regulation;

• “working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day other than Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday^f2.

In these Regulations, references to sections are references to sections of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014.