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Section 117: Fees

Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 · 2008 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Regulation of Social Housing — Chapter 3: Registration

The regulator may charge—

a fee for dealing with an application for initial registration, and
an annual fee for continued registration.

The regulator may make dealing with an application for initial registration conditional upon the payment of the fee.

Except in the case of a local authority, the regulator may make ... continued registration conditional upon payment of the fee.

The regulator shall—

prescribe the amount of a fee, and
make provision about the periods during which and in respect of which annual fees are payable.

The regulator may set different fees, and make different provision, for different cases or circumstances.

The amount of a fee payable under this section may be calculated by reference to costs incurred, or likely to be incurred, by the regulator in the performance of any of its functions, including costs unconnected with the fee-payer and costs unconnected with registration or regulation under this Part.

Fees must be set in accordance with principles which the regulator prepares and publishes and which are designed to ensure that so far as is reasonably practicable—

fee income matches the costs incurred in the performance of the regulator's functions,
... and
actual or potential registered providers can see the relationship between the amount of a fee and the costs incurred, or likely to be incurred, in the performance of the regulator's functions.

The principles—

shall provide for section 95(3) to be disregarded for the purpose of subsection (5)(a), and
may provide for specified expenditure or potential expenditure under section 95 or otherwise to be disregarded for the purpose of subsection (5)(a).

Principles do not have effect until approved by the Secretary of State.

In preparing (or revising) the principles the regulator shall consult persons appearing to the regulator to represent the interests of fee-payers.

The regulator's accounts shall show—

fees received, and
fees outstanding.

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