{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-houses-in-multiple-occupation-charges-for-registration-schemes-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-houses-in-multiple-occupation-charges-for-registration-schemes-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110791487",
  "legislation_title": "The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Charges for Registration Schemes) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-houses-in-multiple-occupation-charges-for-registration-schemes-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 1985;\n“control provisions”, “local housing authority” and “registration scheme” have the same meanings as in Part XI of the Act;\n“house” means a house in multiple occupation within the meaning of that Part or, as the circumstances of the case require, a building or part of a building intended to be used as such a house.\n(2) These Regulations apply to registration schemes containing control provisions made under Part XI of the Act as amended by the Housing Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68: relevant amendments are made to this Act by paragraphs 45 to 48 of Schedule 9 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, and sections 65 to 80 of the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the index of defined expressions, see section 400."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110791487/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:24.135291+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."
}