33 Rent repayment orders: further provision
Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (2014 anaw 7) | Legislation

33  Rent repayment orders: further provision

(1)     Where, on an application by the licensing authority or a local housing authority (as the case may be) for a rent repayment order, the tribunal is satisfied—

(a)     that a person has been convicted of an offence under section 7(5) or 13(3) in relation to the dwelling to which the application relates, and

(b)     that—

(i)     one or more relevant awards of universal credit were paid (whether or not to the appropriate person), or

(ii)     housing benefit was paid (whether or not to the appropriate person) in respect of periodical payments payable in connection with a domestic tenancy of the dwelling during any period during which it appears to the tribunal that such an offence was being committed in relation to the dwelling in question,

the tribunal must make a rent repayment order requiring the appropriate person to pay to the authority which made the application the amount mentioned in subsection (2); but this is subject to subsections (3), (4) and (8).

(2)     The amount is—

(a)     an amount equal to—

(i)     where one relevant award of universal credit was paid as mentioned in subsection (1)(b)(i), the amount included in the calculation

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