Glossary

• Abandoned property
• Administered Property
• Allocation right holder
• Applicable law
• Associated property
• B claim order
• Call Center
• Claim
• Claimant
• Closure
• Commission/ Commission session/ Commissioner
• Connected claim
• Compensation and Restitution
• Compensation for damaged or destroyed property
• Damage to properties under administration
• Deadlines
• Decisions – power to issue
• Decisions of the HPCC
• Declaratory order
• Eviction
• Evidence
• Exit Strategy
• The Housing and Property Claims Commission
• The Housing and Property Directorate
• Housing needs - humanitarian cases
• Implementation
• Informal transaction
• Inventory case
• Languages
• Limitation periods
• Mandate
• Missing claimants
• Occupancy right
• Parties to a claim
• Post-decision options for successful claimants
• Prima facie Evidence
• Residential Property
• Property right
• Provisional measures
• Reconsideration Request
• Repossession
• Representation (of claimant or party to a claim)
• Restitution
• Restitution in kind
• UNMIK Regulation 1999/23
• UNMIK Regulation 2000/60
• Summary procedure
• Temporary permit/authorization
• Uncontested claim
• Withdrawal

This glossary is intended to comprise a guide only to the terminology used in the legislation governing the Housing and Property Directorate and the Housing and Property Claims Commission. It is not a intended to be a comprehensive outline of the legal framework governing these bodies. The customary disclaimer for omissions accordingly applies.