Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 3122

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures and Amendment) Regulations 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 3122

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures and Amendment) Regulations 1996

Made	9th December 1996

Laid	17th December 1996

Coming into force

Regulations 1 and 9 7th January 1997   Regulations 7 and 8 20th January 1997   Regulations 2 to 4 for the purposes of regulations 7 and 8 20th January 1997   Regulations 5 and 6 and regulations 2 to 4 for all remaining purposes 1st April 1997

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 160(4), 161(2) and (3), 162(4), 163(7), 165(1), (2) and (5) and 203(1), (2) and (7) of the Housing Act 1996^[1] and of all the other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

PART I
General

Citation, commencement and interpretation
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures and Amendment) Regulations 1996.

    (2)  These Regulations shall come into force as follows—
 (a) this regulation and regulation 9 on 7th January 1997;
 (b) regulations 7 and 8 on 20th January 1997;
 (c) regulations 2 to 4, for the purposes of regulations 7 and 8, on 20th January 1997; and
 (d) regulations 5 and 6 and regulations 2 to 4 for all remaining purposes on 1st April 1997.

Interpretation
    2.    In these Regulations, "the authority" means the local housing authority to whom a request for a review under section 164 or 202 is made and references to sections are references to sections of the Housing Act 1996.

Who is to make the decision on the review
    3.    Where the decision on a review of an original decision made by an officer of the authority is also to be made by an officer, that officer shall be someone who was not involved in the original decision and who is senior to the officer who made the original decision.

Notification of the decision on a review
    4.    The period within which the authority shall notify the applicant of the decision on a review under section 164 or 202 is eight weeks from the day on which the request for the review is made to the authority or such longer period as the authority and the applicant may agree in writing.

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Notes:

[1] 1996 c. 52.

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