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

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

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

• Anglia Ruskin University

• Aston University

• Balliol College, University of Oxford

• Bath Spa University

• Birmingham City University

• Bishop Grosseteste University College

• Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

• Blackpool and Fylde College

• Bournemouth University

• Bradford College

• Brasenose College, University of Oxford

• Brunel University

• Buckinghamshire New University

• Canterbury Christ Church University

• Central College Nottingham

• Chichester College

• Christ Church, University of Oxford

• Christ’s College, University of Cambridge

• Churchill College, University of Cambridge

• Clare College, University of Cambridge

• Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

• Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

• Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

• Coventry University

• Cranfield University

• Darwin College, University of Cambridge

• David Game College

• De Montfort University

• Downing College, University of Cambridge

• Edge Hill University

• Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

• Exeter College, University of Oxford

• Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

• Foundation for International Education

• Girton College, University of Cambridge

• Goldsmiths, University of London

• Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

• Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

• Harper Adams University College

• Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford

• Hertford College, University of Oxford

• Heythrop College, University of London

• Hillcroft College

• Homerton College, University of Cambridge

• Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

• Imperial College London

• Institute of Education, University of London

• Jesus College, University of Cambridge

• Jesus College, University of Oxford

• Keble College, University of Oxford

• Keele University

• Kellogg College, University of Oxford

• King’s College London

• King’s College, University of Cambridge

• Kingston University

• Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• Lancaster University

• Leeds Metropolitan University

• Leeds Trinity University College

• Linacre College, University of Oxford

• Lincoln College, University of Oxford

• Liverpool Hope University

• London School of Economics, University of London

• London South Bank University

• Loughborough College

• Loughborough University

• Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

• Magdalen College, University of Oxford

• Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

• Manchester Metropolitan University

• Mansfield College, University of Oxford

• Merton College, University of Oxford

• Middlesex University

• Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

• New College, University of Oxford

• Newman University, Birmingham

• Newnham College, University of Cambridge

• Norwich University College of the Arts

• Northumbria University

• Nottingham Trent University

• Nuffield College, University of Oxford

• Oriel College, University of Oxford

• Oxford Brookes University

• Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

• Pembroke College, University of Oxford

• Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge

• Queen Mary, University of London

• Queen’s College, University of Cambridge

• Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

• Richmond, The American International University in London

• Robinson College, University of Cambridge

• Roehampton University

• Royal Agricultural College

• Royal Holloway, University of London

• Ruskin College, Oxford

• Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford

• Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

• Sheffield Hallam University

• Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

• Somerville College, University of Oxford

• Southampton Solent University

• St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

• St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

• St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford

• St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

• St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

• St Chad’s College, University of Durham

• St Cross College, University of Oxford

• St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge

• St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

• St George’s, University of London

• St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

• St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

• St John’s College, University of Cambridge

• St John’s College, University of Durham

• St John’s College, University of Oxford

• St Mary’s University College, Twickenham

• St Peter’s College, University of Oxford

• St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford

• Staffordshire University

• Stanfords College UK

• The Arts University Bournemouth

• The Guildhall School of Music and Drama

• The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

• The Royal Veterinary College

• Trinity College, University of Cambridge

• Trinity College, University of Oxford

• Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

• University College Birmingham

• University for the Creative Arts

• University College London

• University College Falmouth

• University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

• University College, University of Oxford

• University of Bath

• University of Bedfordshire

• University of Birmingham

• University of Bolton

• University of Bradford

• University of Brighton

• University of Bristol

• University of Buckingham

• University of Central Lancashire

• University of Chester

• University of Chichester

• University of Cumbria

• University of Derby

• University of Durham

• University of East Anglia

• University of East London

• University of Essex

• University of Exeter

• University of Gloucester

• University of Greenwich

• University of Hertfordshire

• University of Hull

• University of Kent

• University of Leeds

• University of Leicester

• University of Lincoln

• University of Liverpool

• University of London

• University of Manchester

• University of Newcastle

• University of Northampton

• University of Nottingham

• University of Oxford

• University of Plymouth

• University of Portsmouth

• University of Reading

• University of Salford

• University of Sheffield

• University of Southampton

• University of Sunderland

• University of Surrey

• University of Sussex

• University of Teesside

• University of the Arts London

• University of the West of England, Bristol

• University of Warwick

• University of Westminster

• University of Winchester

• University of Wolverhampton

• University of Worcester

• University of York

• Wadham College, University of Oxford

• Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

• Wolfson College, University of Oxford

• Worcester College, University of Oxford

• Writtle College

• Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] 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.

(4)

S.I. 2012/249.