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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1982.
(2) In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971.
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(1) The procedures to be followed by rent assessment committees on—
(a) matters referred to them under paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 11 to the Rent Act 1977, or
(b) applications referred to them under paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 to the 1977 Actwhere the reference is made after the coming into operation of these regulations, shall be that set out in the said Part I of Schedule 11 or in the said Schedule 12 (as the case may be) and in the principal regulations as modified or amended by these regulations.
(2) Accordingly, as respects such applications, section 67(7) and section 69(3) of the Rent Act 1977 shall each be modified by the insertion of the words “and by the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1981” after the words “Regulations 1980”.
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Paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 11 and paragraph 9(1)(c) of Schedule 12 to the Rent Act 1977 are each modified by the substitution of the words “7 days” for the words “14 days”.
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The principal regulations are amended as follows:—
(1) in regulation 3(3) for the words “14 days” substitute the words “10 days (subject to paragraph (4) below)”;
(2) after regulation 3(3) insert the following paragraph—“
(4) The notice referred to in paragraph (3) above may be given not less than 7 days before the date of the hearing if that date has been referred to in the notice given under paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 11 or under paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 12 to the Rent Act 1977 as the date when the hearing would be held if a request to make oral representations were to be made.”
(3) in regulation 10(1) omit the words “shall contain the reasons for the decision, but”; and
(4) after regulation 10 insert the following regulation:—“


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(1) Where the committee are requested, on or before the giving or notification of the decision, to state the reasons for the decision, those reasons shall be recorded in a document.
(2) Regulation 10 above shall apply to the document recording the reasons as it applies to the document recording the decision.
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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
John Stanley
Minister for Housing and Construction
Department of the Environment
20th October 1981Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
20th October 1981