Regulation 5

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 5(1)(b) words substituted by Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) 2022 reg. 8(5)(a)
reg. 5(1)(b) words inserted by Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) 2022 reg. 8(5)(b)
reg. 5(1)(b) amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2022/781, reg. 8(5) by Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) 2022 reg. 3(4)(c)

(1)

The committee shall, where the reference is to be subject to a hearing, take all reasonable steps to ensure that there is supplied to each of the parties before the date of the hearing—

(a)

a copy of, or sufficient extracts from or particulars of, any document relevant to the reference which has been received from the rent officer or from a party (other than a document which is in the possession of such party, or of which he has previously been supplied with a copy by the rent officer); and

(b)

a copy of any document which embodies the results of any enquiries made by or for the committee for the purposes of that reference, or which contains relevant information in relation to fair rents previously determined for other dwelling-houses and which has been prepared for the committee for the purposes of that reference.

(2)

Where at any hearing—

(i)

any document relevant to the reference is not in the possession of a party present at that hearing; and

(ii)

that party has not been supplied with a copy of, or sufficient extracts from or particulars of, that document by the rent officer or by the committee in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this regulation,

then unless—

(a)

that party consents to the continuation of the hearing; or

(b)

the committee consider that that party has a sufficient opportunity of dealing with that document without an adjournment of the hearing, the committee shall adjourn the hearing for a period which they consider will afford that party a sufficient opportunity of dealing with that document.