{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-231",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-231.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/231",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "231",
  "heading": "Appeals from residential property tribunals",
  "text": "(1) A party to proceedings before a residential property tribunal may appeal to the Upper Tribunal from a decision of the residential property tribunal.\n(2) But the appeal may only be made with the permission of the residential property tribunal or the Upper Tribunal.\n(3) On the appeal—\n(a) the Upper Tribunal may exercise any power which was available to the residential property tribunal, and\n(b) a decision of the Upper Tribunal may be enforced in the same way as a decision of the residential property tribunal.\n(4) Section 65A of the Rent Act 1977 (right of appeal from a rent assessment committee in Wales) does not apply to a decision of a residential property tribunal).\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 231(1) substituted (1.6.2009) by Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1307), art. 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 276(a) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 231(2) substituted (1.6.2009) by Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1307), art. 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 276(b) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 231(3) substituted (1.6.2009) by Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1307), art. 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 276(a) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 231(4) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 175 (with Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 231(5) omitted (1.6.2009) by virtue of Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1307), art. 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 276(c) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 231 excluded by Housing Act 1985 (c. 68), Sch. 5 para. 11(5B) (as inserted (4.7.2005 (E.) and prosp. (W.)) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 181(3), 270(4)(5)(c)); S.I. 2005/1729, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 231 wholly in force at 16.6.2006; s. 231 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 270(4)(5); s. 231 in force for E. at 4.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/1729, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 3); s. 231 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/section/231",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:07:46.164527+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}