Citation, commencement and application

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 1st June 2019.

(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 purpose of paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (buildings occupied by students) where-

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

(b)it is a member of-

(i)the ANUK/Unipol Code of Standards for Larger Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 1st May 2019(2); or

(ii)the Universities UK/Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 1st May 2019(3).

Revocation

3.  The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2016(4) are revoked.

Regulation 2

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

• Anglia Ruskin University

• Arts University Bournemouth

• Balliol College, University of Oxford

• Bath Spa University

• Birmingham City University

• Bishop Grosseteste University

• Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

• Bournemouth University

• Brasenose College, University of Oxford

• Brunel University

• Buckinghamshire New University

• Canterbury Christ Church University

• Christ Church, University of Oxford

• Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

• Coventry University

• Cranfield University

• De Montfort University

• Edge Hill University

• Exeter College, University of Oxford

• Falmouth Exeter Plus

• Goldsmiths University of London

• Green Templeton College , University of Oxford

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

• Harper Adams University

• Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford

• Hertford College, University of Oxford

• Imperial College London

• Jesus College, University of Oxford

• Keble College, University of Oxford

• Keele University

• Kellogg College, University of Oxford

• King's College London

• Kingston University

• Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• Lancaster University

• Leeds Trinity University

• 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 University

• Magdalen College, University of Oxford

• Manchester Metropolitan University

• Mansfield College, University of Oxford

• Merton College, University of Oxford

• Middlesex University

• New College, University of Oxford

• Newcastle University

• Newman University

• Norwich University of the Arts

• Nuffield College, University of Oxford

• Oriel College, University of Oxford

• Oxford Brookes University

• Pembroke College, University of Oxford

• Queen Mary (University of London)

• Regents Park College, University of Oxford

• Richmond, The American International University in London

• Roehampton University

• Royal Agricultural University

• Royal Holloway, University of London

• Ruskin College, University of Oxford

• Sheffield Hallam University

• Solent University

• Somerville College, University of Oxford

• St Anne's College, University of Oxford

• St Antony's College, University of Oxford

• St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford

• St Catherine's College, University of Oxford

• St Chad's College University of Durham

• St Cross College, University of Oxford

• 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 Durham (Independent)

• St John's College, University of Oxford

• St Mary's University, Twickenham

• St Peter's College, University of Oxford

• St Stephen's House, University of Oxford

• Staffordshire University

• The Queen's College, University of Oxford

• Trinity College, University of Oxford

• University College Birmingham

• University College London

• University College Plymouth St Mark and St John

• University College, University of Oxford

• University for the Creative Arts

• University of Bath

• University of Bedfordshire

• University of Birmingham

• University of Bolton

• University of Brighton

• University of Bristol

• University of Buckingham

• University of Central Lancashire

• University of Chester

• 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 Hull

• University of Kent

• University of Leicester

• University of Lincoln

• University of Liverpool

• University of London

• University of Manchester

• University of Northampton

• University of Nottingham

• University of Oxford

• University of Plymouth

• University of Portsmouth

• University of Reading

• University of Sheffield

• University of Southampton

• University of Sunderland

• University of Surrey

• University of Sussex

• University of Teesside

• 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 Oxford

• Worcester College, University of Oxford

• Writtle College

• Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford

• York St John University

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 (excluding 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 2016 (SI 2016/420). They replace the list of educational establishments that appeared in the Schedule to those earlier Regulations.

Copies of the codes of practice referred to 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.