Commentary on provisions of Act Registration of providers of social housing Section 7: Registration criteria
Section 7 amends section 112 of the HRA 2008 to enable the regulator to make the registration of private registered providers conditional upon their ability to meet, on registration, regulatory standards.
	Under section 112 of the HRA 2008, the regulator is able to set criteria which specify the financial, constitutional and management arrangements that must be satisfied by new registrants. This change allows the regulator to add to that. The change will allow the regulator to confirm that providers are capable of meeting registration requirements related to all its standards – for instance, on its consumer standards in relation to maintaining homes and adopting suitable procedures for addressing tenant complaints - before they become a registered provider.