The Lands Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2006
These Rules make the following amendments to the Lands Tribunal Rules 1996 (S.I 1996/1022) in relation to appeals from the leasehold valuation tribunal and residential property tribunals.Part IIA, which deals with applications for permission to appeal to the Lands Tribunal, is amended as a consequence of the commencement of section 231 of the Housing Act 2004, which confers rights to appeal to the Lands Tribunal against decisions of a residential property tribunal, subject to permission.The time limit for applying to the Lands Tribunal for permission to appeal after a refusal of permission by the leasehold valuation tribunal or residential property tribunal has been reduced from 28 days to 14 days.The Lands Tribunal have power to direct that the time limits of 28 days for filing notice of appeal, serving notice of intention to respond, or serving a statement of case, or a reply (or copy of a reply) to a statement of case be shortened, or to direct that an application for permission to appeal stand as a notice of appeal. A new rule 35A is inserted providing that the Tribunal may make such a direction (an “urgency direction”) on application by one of the parties according to the normal interlocutory procedures, or by the Tribunal on its own initiative, having given the parties opportunity to make representations.