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27 2004

Residential Tenancies Act 2004

Chapter 5

Tenancy Tribunal

Tenancy Tribunals and the “Tribunal”.

102. —(1) From time to time as occasion requires the Board shall cause to be constituted, for the purposes of this Part, one or more tribunals which or each of which shall be known as a “Tenancy Tribunal”.

(2) A reference in section 103 or any other provision of this Act to the “Tribunal” is a reference to whichever of the tribunals constituted under this section the provision concerned falls to be applied.

Membership of Tribunal, etc.

103. —(1) The number of members of the Tribunal shall be 3.

(2) Each of the members of the Tribunal shall be a person who is, for the time being, a member of the Dispute Resolution Committee.

(3) The members of the Tribunal shall be appointed by the Board.

(4) One of the members of the Tribunal shall be the chairperson of the Tribunal; subject to subsection (5), the Board shall determine which of the members shall be the chairperson.

(5) If a member of the Board is a member of the Tribunal he or she shall be the chairperson of the Tribunal or, if 2 or more members of the Board are members of the Tribunal, whichever of them the Board determines shall be the chairperson.

(6) The Tribunal shall be independent in the performance of its functions.

(7) A decision of a majority of the members of the Tribunal suffices for any purpose.