PART VIII AREA IMPROVEMENT
Housing action areas
252 Meaning of “housing accommodation” and related expressions.
In the provisions of this Part relating to housing action areas—
(a)
“housing accommodation” means dwellings, houses in multiple occupation and hostels;
(b)
“dwelling” means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling, together with any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances belonging to or usually enjoyed with that building or part; and
F1(c)
“house in multiple occupation” means a house in multiple occupation as defined by sections 254 to 259 of the Housing Act 2004, as they have effect for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act (that is, without the exclusions contained in Schedule 14 to that Act), but does not include any part of such a house which is occupied as a separate dwelling by persons who form a single household.