(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: e-mail: 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