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259HMOs: persons treated as occupying premises as only or main residenceE+W

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(1)This section sets out when persons are to be treated for the purposes of section 254 as occupying a building or part of a building as their only or main residence.

(2)A person is to be treated as so occupying a building or part of a building if it is occupied by the person—

(a)as the person’s residence for the purpose of undertaking a full-time course of further or higher education;

(b)as a refuge, or

(c)in any other circumstances which are circumstances of a description specified for the purposes of this section in regulations made by the appropriate national authority.

(3)In subsection (2)(b) “refuge” means a building or part of a building managed by a voluntary organisation and used wholly or mainly for the temporary accommodation of persons who have left their homes as a result of—

(a)physical violence or mental abuse, or

(b)threats of such violence or abuse,

from persons [F1who are or were their spouses or civil partners] or with whom they are or were co-habiting.

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Commencement Information

I1S. 259 wholly in force at 18.1.2005; s. 259 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent and in force otherwise at 18.1.2005, see s. 270(2)(b)(3)(a)

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