{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assured-and-protected-tenancies-lettings-to-students-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2236",
  "legislation_title": "The Assured and Protected Tenancies (Lettings to Students) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/assured-and-protected-tenancies-lettings-to-students-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 8 of the Rent Act 1977 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988 excepts from the definition of “protected tenancy” and “assured tenancy” in section 1 of the respective Acts a tenancy granted to a student, or prospective student, at an educational institution specified for the purposes of the said section 8 or paragraph 8 by regulations if the tenancy is granted by such an institution or by a body so specified.\nThese Regulations consolidate the Regulations specifying institutions and bodies for the purposes of section 8 and specifies the same and certain other institutions and bodies for the purposes of the said paragraph 8.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2236/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:19.670725+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}