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

Immigration and nationality

Houses in multiple occupation

Refugees and asylum seekers

Fostering

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2024-05-21

HOUSING, WALES

These Regulations make provision in respect of a number of miscellaneous matters relating to provisions of the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act.”). These are: 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 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); andspecify the information that must be contained in registers held by local housing authorities of licences granted under Part 2 or 3, of temporary exemption notices that exempt a house from licensing and of management orders (regulations 11, 12 and 13).