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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(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, which deals with housing conditions). 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 the building is the establishment in question, or a specified person or a person of a specified description.

Regulation 2 of, and the Schedule to, these Regulations specify establishments. Where a building is owned and managed by a specified establishment and the building is listed in the relevant Schedule to the Codes referred to in regulation 2(b), then the building is not an HMO for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1) .

These Regulations revoke and re-enact the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2007, and specify additional educational establishments that were not listed in the Schedule to those Regulations.

A copy of the Universities UK/Standing Conference of Principals Code of Practice and the Schedule annexed to it may be obtained from Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ, e-mail info@universitiesuk.ac.uk, or via the internet at www.universities UK.ac.uk.

A copy of the Accreditation Network UK/Unipol Code of Standards and the annexes annexed to it may be obtained from The National Administrator, National Codes of Standards, 155-157 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 3ED, e-mail nationalcode@unipol.leeds.ac.uk or nationalcode@anuk.org.uk, or via the internet at www.unipol.org.uk or www.anuk.org.uk/Large Code/.

A copy of each Code and the Schedules annexed to those codes, updated to 22^nd August, have been lodged in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.

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