30 Rent stopping orders

30  Rent stopping orders

(1)     A residential property tribunal may, in accordance with this section, make an order (a “rent stopping order”) in relation to a dwelling subject to a domestic tenancy on an application made to it by—

(a)     the licensing authority for the area in which the dwelling is located, or

(b)     the local housing authority for the area in which the dwelling is located.

(2)     But a local housing authority may not make an application under subsection (1) without the consent of the licensing authority mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection (unless it is the licensing authority); and consent for that purpose may be given generally or in respect of a particular application.

(3)     Where the tribunal makes a rent stopping order—

(a)     periodical payments payable in connection with a domestic tenancy of

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