{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/schedule-13/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/schedule-13/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Procedure regulations may include provision empowering tribunals to dismiss applications, appeals or transferred proceedings, in whole or in part, on the ground that they are—\n(a) frivolous or vexatious, or\n(b) otherwise an abuse of process.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 9 wholly in force at 16.6.2006; Sch. 13 para. 9 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 270(2)(b); Sch. 13 para. 9 in force for E. at. 4.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/1729, art. 2(b) (subject to art. 3); Sch. 13 para. 9 in force for W. at 16.6.2006 by S.I. 2006/1535, art. 2(a) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/34/schedule/13/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:48.975968+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."
}