Paragraph 2

For the purposes of paragraph 1 and this paragraph—

(a)

“residence” means a building used or partly used as a residence;

(b)

a building is a residence if—

(i)

it is normally used or partly used as a residence, but for any reason so much of it as is normally used as a residence is temporarily unoccupied;

(ii)

it is let or partly let for use as a holiday dwelling;

(iii)

it, or part of it, is a hotel or is otherwise principally used for letting or licensing accommodation to paying occupants; or

(iv)

it is a house in multiple occupation as defined in section 77 of the Housing Act 2004^f1; and

(c)

a building or other land is not a residence if—

(i)

it is land on which currently there are no residences but for which planning permission or development consent has been granted for the construction of residences;

(ii)

it is a building undergoing construction where there is planning permission or development consent for the completed building to be used as a residence, but construction is not yet complete; or

(iii)

it was previously used as a residence but is in future to be used for a different purpose and planning permission or development consent for a change of use to that purpose has been granted.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: c. 34.