The Licensing and Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation and Other Houses (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Regulations 2006

UK Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 373 — creates 1 criminal offence.

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Made: 15 February 2006
In force from: 6 April 2006
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Housing, planning, heritage and land
Made under: Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004

Explanatory note

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These Regulations make provision in respect of a number of miscellaneous matters relating to Part 2 (licensing of HMOs, Part 3 (selective licensing), Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 4 (management orders) and section 254 (meaning of HMO) of the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act”). They— specify the circumstances when persons are to be regarded as forming a single household for the purposes of deciding whether a building is an HMO within any of the descriptions in section 254 of the Act (regulations 3 and 4); provide that migrant workers, seasonal workers and asylum seekers are to be treated as occupying certain premises as their only or main residence (regulation 5); specify a description of buildings that are not HMOs for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1) (regulation 6 and Schedule 1); make provision about applications for licences under Part 2 or 3 of the Act, including the information that must be supplied with an application (regulation 7 and Schedule 2); specify the standards to be applied when determining the suitability of a house for multiple occupation for licensing under Part 2 of the Act (regulation 8 and Schedule 3); specify the manner in which designations of areas under Part 2 or 3 of the Act, and revocations of such designations, must be published (regulations 9 and 10); and specify the information that must be contained in registers held by local housing authorities of licences granted under Part 2 or 3, temporary exemption notices that exempt a house from licensing and of management orders (regulations 11, 12 and 13). A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this Order will have on the costs of business is available from the Licensing Branch, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2/G9 Eland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DU (telephone 0207 944 3149, e-mail licensing@odpm.gsi.gov.uk).

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Business of the House: Referral of Statutory Instruments to Grand Committee Lords · Lords Chamber · 27 April 2006 · Lord Grocott
My Lords, I beg to move the first Motion standing in the name of my noble friend Lady Amos on the Order Paper. Moved, That the following 10 Motions be referred to a Grand Committee— The Baroness Byford—To move, That the Grand Committee do consider the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/641) [30th Report from the Merits Committee].]. The Baroness Byford—To move, That the Grand Committee do consider the Gangmasters Licensing (Exclusions) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/658) [30th Report from the Merits Committee].]. The Baroness Byford—To move, That the Grand…

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