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5. For the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Act and for the purposes of these Regulations, there is a material change of use where there is a change in the purposes for which or the circumstances in which a building is used, so that after that change—
(a)the building is used as a dwelling, where previously it was not;
(b)the building contains a flat, where previously it did not;
(c)the building is used as an hotel or a boarding house, where previously it was not;
(d)the building is used as an institution, where previously it was not;
(e)the building is used as a public building, where previously it was not;
(f)the building is not a building described in classes 1 to 6 in Schedule 2, where previously it was;
(g)the building, which contains at least one dwelling, contains a greater or lesser number of dwellings than it did previously;
(h)the building contains a room for residential purposes, where previously it did not;
(i)the building, which contains at least one room for residential purposes, contains a greater or lesser number of such rooms than it did previously; or
(j)the building is used as a shop, where previously it was not.
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