- Welsh Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 1707 (W.169)
The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (Wales) Regulations 2006
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| Made | 27 June 2006 | ||
| Coming into force | 7 July 2006 |
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004[1], hereby makes the following Regulations:
Title, commencement and application
1. —(1) The title of these Regulations is The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 7 July 2006.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
Educational establishments specified for certain purposes of the Housing Act 2004
2. An educational establishment is specified for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 where—
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(a) it is listed in the Schedule to these Regulations; and
(b) it is listed as the relevant educational establishment in respect of a building—
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(i) listed in the Schedule of The Universities UK/Standing Conference of Principals Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing (Wales) dated 16 May 2006[2]; or
(ii) listed in the second column of Schedule 1 of the Accreditation Network UK/Unipol Code of Standards for Larger Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments (Wales) dated 16 May 2006[3].
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[4].
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
27 June 2006
Cardiff University;
University of Glamorgan;
Swansea Institute of Higher Education;
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff;
University of Wales, Aberystwyth;
University of Wales, Bangor;
Trinity College Carmarthen;
University of Wales, Newport;
University of Wales, Lampeter;
University of Wales, Swansea.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Schedule 14 to The Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") describes buildings that are not houses in multiple occupation ("HMOs") for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1). HMOs are defined by section 254 of the Act.
Paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Act provides that a building is not an HMO for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1) if it is a building which is occupied solely or principally by persons who occupy it for the purpose of undertaking a full-time course of further education at a specified establishment or at an establishment of a specified description, and where the person managing or controlling it is the establishment in question or a specified person or a person of a specified description. Regulation 2 of these Regulations specify such establishments. The establishments are specified if they are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations and are also listed as the manager of any building listed in a schedule forming part of either of the codes referred to in regulation 2(b).
A copy of the Universities UK/Standing Conference of Principals Code of Practice (Wales) may be obtained from the Housing Directorate, Department for Social Justice and Regeneration, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ; e-mail: housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk; internet: www.wales.gov.uk, or Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ; e-mail: info@universitiesuk.ac.uk; internet: www.universities_UK.ac.uk.
A copy of the Accreditation Network UK/Unipol Code of Standards Code (Wales) may be obtained from the Housing Directorate, Department for Social Justice and Regeneration, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ; e-mail: housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk; internet: www.wales.gov.uk, or The National Administrator, National Codes of Standards, 155-157 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 3ED: nationalcode@unipol.leeds.ac.uk or nationalcode@anuk.org.uk: internet: www.unipol.org.uk or www.anuk.org.uk/Large Code/.
A full regulatory appraisal of the effects of these Regulations is available from the Housing Directorate, Department for Social Justice and Regeneration, the National Assembly for Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ; e-mail: housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk; internet: www.wales.gov.uk
Notes:
[1] 2004 c. 34. The powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 of the Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") are exercisable, as respects Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales and as respects England, by the Secretary of State. See definition of appropriate national authority ("awdurdod cenedlaethol priodol") in section 261(1) of the Act.back
[2] This Code of Practice has been approved by the National Assembly for Wales under section 233 of the Act. See The Housing (Approval of Codes of Management Practice (Student Accommodation) (Wales) Order 2006 (SI 2006/1709 (W.171)).back
[3] This Code of Practice has been approved by the National Assembly for Wales under section 233 of the Act. See The Housing (Approval of Codes of Management Practice) (Student Accommodation) (Wales) Order 2006 (SI 2006/1709 (W.171)).back
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