{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-property-chamber-rules-2013/article-44",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1169",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-property-chamber-rules-2013",
  "path": "article/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Urgent IMO authorisation applications",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies when a local housing authority makes an urgent IMO authorisation application.\n(2) If it appears to the Tribunal, on the basis of information accompanying the application that the exceptional circumstances mentioned in paragraph (3) exist, it must order that an urgent hearing be held and must follow the procedure set out in rule 46.\n(3) The exceptional circumstances are that—\n(a) there is an immediate threat to the health and safety of the occupiers of the house or to persons occupying or having an estate or interest in any premises in the vicinity of the house; and\n(b) by making the IMO as soon as possible (together where applicable with such other measures as the local housing authority intends to take) the local housing authority will be able to take immediate appropriate steps to arrest or significantly reduce the threat.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1169/article/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:54:30.912557+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."
}