Article 3 Conditions specified for the purposes of section 80(2)(b) of the 2004 Act

(1)

The following conditions are specified as additional conditions for the purposes of section 80(2)(b) of the 2004 Act, which a local housing authority must consider are satisfied in relation to the area before making a selective licensing designation under this provision—

(a)

that the area contains a high proportion of properties in the private rented sector, in relation to the total number of properties in the area;

(b)

that the properties referred to in sub-paragraph (a) are occupied either under assured tenancies or licences to occupy; and

(c)

that one or more of the sets of conditions in articles 4 to 7 is satisfied.

(2)

For the purposes of this article, a property shall not be regarded as being in the private rented sector where the landlord is a private registered provider of social housing, as defined by section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2008 c.17. Section 80(3) was inserted by S.I. 2010/844.