{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-houses-in-multiple-occupation-asylum-seeker-accommodation-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348246889",
  "legislation_title": "The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-houses-in-multiple-occupation-asylum-seeker-accommodation-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 254 of the Housing Act 2004",
  "text": "(1) Section 254 of the Housing Act 2004 (meaning of “house in multiple occupation”) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) A building, or part of a building, in England which is within subsection (1) is not a house in multiple occupation for the purposes of Part 2 during the relevant period if—\n(a) it is occupied solely or principally by asylum-seekers or members of their household; and\n(b) the person managing or having control of it is—\n(i) a relevant landlord, or\n(ii) an AASC provider; and\n(c) in the case of an AASC provider, the occupation as mentioned in paragraph (a) began in the period beginning with the date the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023 came into force and ending with 30th June 2024.\n(5B) For the purposes of subsection (5A) and this subsection—\n(a) “AASC provider” means a person who has entered into a contract with the Secretary of State to procure accommodation for asylum-seekers to discharge the functions of the Secretary of State under section 4, 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n(b) “asylum-seeker” means a person to whom support may be provided under section 4, 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n(c) “asylum-seeker accommodation contract” means a contract between an AASC provider and another person under which that other person contracts to provide accommodation to asylum-seekers, but does not include a renewal of a contract entered into before the relevant period;\n(d) “relevant landlord” means a person who has entered into an asylum-seeker accommodation contract with an AASC provider during the period beginning with the day the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023 came into force and ending with 30 June 2024;\n(e) “relevant period” in relation to a building, or part of a building, means the period of 2 years beginning with—\n(i) where the person managing or having control of it is a relevant landlord, the date the asylum-seeker accommodation contract, pursuant to which the building or part of the building is occupied as mentioned in subsection (5A)(a), was entered into;\n(ii) where the person managing or having control of it is an AASC provider, the date that the building or part of the building started to be occupied as mentioned in subsection (5A)(a).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.33; section 4 was repealed by paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) (“the 2016 Act”), but that repeal is not yet fully in force; section 4 was amended by section 49 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) (“the 2002 Act”), section 10 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (c. 19), section 43(7) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13) and section 17(1) and (2) of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (c. 36) (“the 2022 Act”); section 95 was amended by section 44(1) and (6) and 50(1) of the 2002 Act, and paragraphs 26 and 29 of Schedule 10 to, and paragraphs 5 and 8 of Schedule 11, to the 2016 Act but the amendments made by section 44 of the 2002 Act and Schedule 11 to the 2016 Act are not yet fully in force; section 98 was amended by paragraphs 5 and 12 of Schedule 11 to the 2016 Act and section 13(3) and (4) of the 2022 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348246889/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:37.221577+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."
}