Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) (Amendment) Act, 1983

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Regulations supplementing this Act.

15.—(1) The Minister may by regulations provide for—

(a) subject to subsection (3), the terms and conditions of appointment (including remuneration, if any, and allowances) and the tenure of office of the members of the Tribunal,

(b) the manner in which the Tribunal, housing authorities and rent officers shall perform their functions under this Act, and

(c) the enabling of the Tribunal, housing authorities and rent officers to perform such functions effectively.

(2) Regulations under this section may include provisions relating to all or any of the following matters:

(a) the procedure for making applications under section 5 (1) (a) and appeals under section 11 to the Tribunal, the determination of such applications and appeals (including provisions that they may be determined without recourse to an oral hearing) and the notification of the determinations;

(b) the procedure for making applications to a housing authority under section 5 (1) (b), the determination of such applications (including provisions that they may be determined without recourse to an oral hearing) and the notification of the determinations;

(c) the meetings of the Tribunal and the procedure at such meetings, including provisions that the Tribunal may act by divisions and the conditions under which it may do so;

(d) the charging and payment of fees in respect of applications to the Tribunal and housing authorities;

(e) the furnishing to the Tribunal or a rent officer by an applicant or appellant, as the case may be, of any specified information relating to the application or appeal and the production by the applicant or appellant of evidence to verify any particulars or information given by him;

(f) the engaging of consultants and advisers by a housing authority to assist a rent officer or by the Tribunal;

(g) the making available to the landlord and the tenant concerned of any written submissions to the Tribunal or a rent officer, as the case may be;

(h) the furnishing by a rent officer to the Tribunal of documents or other matter in relation to an appeal from a determination by him;

(i) the circumstances and conditions under which the Tribunal or a rent officer may declare that an application or appeal, as the case may be, shall be regarded as having been abandoned;

(j) where an application or appeal is, in the opinion of the Tribunal or a rent officer, as the case may be, being unnecessarily delayed, the circumstances and conditions under which the application or appeal may be determined or be regarded as having been abandoned;

(k) the award by the Tribunal of costs and expenses and the payment thereof;

(l) the making by the Tribunal of an annual report to the Minister;

(m) the furnishing from time to time by the Tribunal or a housing authority to the Minister of information relating to the performance of their functions under this Act and the furnishing, at any time at the Minister's request, of such information;

(n) the regulating of the finances of, and the keeping and auditing of the accounts of, the Tribunal;

(o) matters ancillary or incidental to any of the foregoing matters.

(3) Regulations relating to the matters specified in subsection (1) (a) shall be made only with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service.

(4) The Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall not apply in respect of fees payable by virtue of this Act.