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Changes over time for: Section 252


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252 Meaning of “housing accommodation” and related expressions.E+W
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
[(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.]
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