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99: Tribunal may require inquiry and report by Tenancy Mediator or suitable person
or “The Tribunal can ask someone to look into things and report back to help solve problems between tenants and landlords.”
You could also call this:

“The mediator or judge can ask for a property value report to help decide some cases”

When you are in a dispute about your tenancy, the person helping you solve the problem (called a Tenancy Mediator) or the group that makes decisions about tenancy issues (called the Tribunal) might need extra information. They can ask for a special report about the value of the property. This report is written by someone called a registered valuer, who knows a lot about how much properties are worth.

If the government is involved in the dispute, the person who writes the report can’t work for the government. This is to make sure the report is fair and not biased.

The Tenancy Mediator or Tribunal can ask for this report at any time during the process of sorting out issues about rent increases or decreases. They will ask a government official (the chief executive) to get the report and give it to them.

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Part 3 The Tenancy Tribunal
Procedure

100Tenancy Mediator or Tribunal may require valuer's report in certain proceedings

  1. A Tenancy Mediator or the Tribunal may, at any stage of any proceedings under section 25, require the chief executive to obtain and submit to the Tenancy Mediator or the Tribunal a report by a registered valuer.

  2. In any case where the Crown or any instrument of the Crown is a party, the registered valuer shall not be an employee of the Crown.

Notes
  • Section 100: replaced, on , by section 40(1) of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 7).