The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2013 No. 1601


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Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 1601

Housing, England

The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2013

Made

1st July 2013

Laid before Parliament

5th July 2013

Coming into force

1st August 2013

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004(1):

Citation, commencement and application

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st August 2013.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

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 (buildings occupied by students) where it is-

(a)listed in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b)a member of-

(i)the ANUK/UNIPOL Code of Standards for Larger Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 28th August 2008(2); or

(ii)the Universities UK/Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 17th August 2010(3).

Revocation

3.  The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2012(4) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Don Foster

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

1st July 2013

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEEducational establishments specified for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") lists types of building that are not houses in multiple occupation ("HMOs") for the purposes of the Act (including Part 1, which deals with housing conditions). HMOs are defined in section 254 of the Act. Paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Act refers to any building which is occupied solely or principally by persons who occupy it for the purpose of undertaking a full time course of further or higher education at a specified educational establishment, or at an educational establishment of a specified description, and where the person managing or controlling the building is the educational establishment in question, or a specified person, or a person of a specified description.

Regulation 2 and the Schedule to these Regulations specify educational establishments. Where a building is managed or controlled by an educational establishment which is listed in the Schedule to these Regulations and that educational establishment is a member of either code of practice referred to in regulation 2(b), then that building is not an HMO for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1).

These Regulations revoke the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2012. They replace the list of educational establishments that were listed in the Schedule to those earlier Regulations.

A copy of the ANUK/UNIPOL Code of Standards for Larger Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 28th August 2008 can be obtained from the National Administrator for the ANUK/Unipol National Code of Standards based at Unipol Student Homes, 155-157 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 3ED by e-mailing [email protected] or via the internet at www.unipol.leeds.ac.uk or www.anuk.org.uk.

A copy of Universities UK/Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 17 August 2010 can be obtained from Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ, by e-mailing [email protected] or via the internet at www.universitiesUK.ac.uk.

Copies of the codes of practice referred to above have been lodged in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.

An impact assessment has not been provided for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

(1)

2004 c.34. The powers conferred by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 ("the Act") are exercisable, as respects England, by the Secretary of State. See the definition of the appropriate national authority in section 261(1) of the Act. In relation to Wales, the powers are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers as, by virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), the functions of the National Assembly for Wales are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

This code of practice has been approved by the Secretary of State under section 233 of the Act. See S.I. 2008/2345, which was revoked by S.I. 2010/2615 but with savings for this code of practice (see article 4 of the latter instrument).

(3)

This code of practice has been approved by the Secretary of State under section 233 of the Act. See S.I. 2010/2615.


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