Regulation 5 Amendment of regulation 13 of the principal Regulations

Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations (selection of applicants by FHSA) is amended as follows.

After paragraph (2) there are inserted the following paragraphs—

“(2A)

The FHSA shall not begin making its selection for the purposes of paragraph (2) until—

(a)

after it has resolved to give no more notices or, as the case may be, it has given 3 further notices in respect of the vacancy; and

(b)

the closing date included in the last notice given before the FHSA’s resolution to give no more notices (or, as the case may be, the last of the 3 further notices) has passed.

(2B)

When making its selection, the FHSA shall take no account of the order in which the applications were received, or of the fact that any application was received in response to one notice rather than another.”.