{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-valuation-tribunals-procedure-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-valuation-tribunals-procedure-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2099",
  "legislation_title": "Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (Procedure) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-valuation-tribunals-procedure-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1985 Act” means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985;\n“the 1987 Act” means the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002;\n“applicant” means—\n(a) the person making an application to a tribunal, or\n(b) the person who is the claimant or applicant in proceedings before a court which are transferred by order of the court to a tribunal;\n“application” means, other than for the purposes of regulations 1, 20 and 25—\n(a) an application to a tribunal of a description specified in Schedule 1, or\n(b) a transferred application;\n“recognised tenants' association” has the same meaning as in section 29 of the 1985 Act;\n“representative application” has the meaning given in regulation 8;\n“respondent” means—\n(a) the person against whom an applicant seeks an order or determination from a tribunal; or\n(b) the person who is the defendant or respondent in proceedings before a court which are transferred by order of the court to a tribunal;\n“transferred application” means so much of proceedings before a court as relate to a question falling within the jurisdiction of a tribunal as have been transferred to the tribunal for determination by order of the court; and\n“tribunal” means a leasehold valuation tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2099/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:01:42.029843+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."
}