Structure of the Act Part 2 – Regulation of Social Housing Penalty Section 231 - Representations
671.This section allows registered providers issued with a pre-penalty warning to make representations to the regulator.
672.Subsection (2) specifies that the minimum period for representations must be at least 28 days, beginning on the date on which the registered provider receives the pre-penalty warning.
673.The representations may pertain to any matter connected with the contents of the warning, but in particular with whether a penalty should be imposed, or the likely amount of any penalty.
674.Subsection (4) provides that at the end of the period for representations the regulator must consider any representations that have been made, and decide whether to impose a penalty.