{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-property-tribunal-procedure-england-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-property-tribunal-procedure-england-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/831",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Property Tribunal Procedure (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-property-tribunal-procedure-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 2004;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 1985;\n“application” means an application or appeal to a tribunal under the Act or Part 9 of the 1985 Act and “applicant” bears a corresponding meaning;\n“case management conference” means a pre-trial review or any other meeting held by a tribunal for the purpose of managing the proceedings in respect of an application;\n“the Fees Regulations” means the Residential Property Tribunals (Fees)(England) Regulations 2006;\n“IMO authorisation application” means an application for authorisation to make an interim management order;\n“interested person” means in relation to a particular application—\n(a) a person other than the applicant who would have been entitled under the Act or the 1985 Act (as the case may be) to make the application;\n(b) a person to whom notice of the application must be given by the applicant in accordance with the following provisions of the Act—\n(i) section 73(7);\n(ii) section 96(7);\n(iii) paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 1; or\n(iv) paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 3;\n(c) a person to whom the tribunal must give the opportunity of being heard in accordance with the following provisions of the Act—\n(i) section 34(4); or\n(ii) section 317(2);\n(d) the LHA where it is not a party to the application;\n“LHA” means the local housing authority;\n“premises” means the dwelling or building to which the application relates;\n“the respondent” means, in respect of an application to which a paragraph of the Schedule to these Regulations applies, the person or persons, or one of the persons, specified in sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph;\n“statement of reasons” means a statement of reasons prepared by the LHA under section 8 of the Act (reasons for decision to take enforcement action); and\n“tribunal” means a residential property tribunal, and “the tribunal” in relation to an application means the tribunal by which the application is to be determined.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/830."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the meaning of “interim management order” see section 101(3) of the Act, and for authorisations to make such an order see section 102(4) and (7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "For the meaning of “local housing authority” see section 261(2) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/831/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:33:34.927706+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."
}