78 Management audits

78  Management audits

(1)     The audit referred to in section 76(1) is an audit carried out for the purpose of ascertaining—

(a)     the extent to which the obligations of the landlord which—

(i)     are owed to the qualifying tenants of the constituent dwellings, and

(ii)     involve the discharge of management functions in relation to the relevant premises or any appurtenant property,

are being discharged in an efficient and effective manner; and

(b)     the extent to which sums payable by those tenants by way of service charges are being applied in an efficient and effective manner;

and in this Chapter any such audit is referred to as a “management audit”.

(2)     In determining whether any such obligations as are mentioned in subsection (1)(a) are being discharged in an efficient and effective manner, regard shall be had to any applicable provisions of any code of practice for the time being

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