{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-specified-educational-establishments-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-specified-educational-establishments-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSchedule 1 to the Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (“the HMO Act”) lists types of building that are not houses in multiple occupation (“HMOs”). For the purposes of the HMO Act, HMOs are defined in section 1 of the Act. Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the HMO Act refers to any building which is occupied solely or principally by persons who occupy it for the purpose of undertaking a full time course of further or higher education at a specified educational establishment, or at an educational establishment of a specified description, and where the person managing or controlling the building is the education establishment in question, or a specified person, or a person of a specified description.\nWhere a building is managed or controlled by an educational establishment which is listed in these Regulations and that educational establishment is a member of a recognised specified accreditation referred to in Regulation 5, then that building is not an HMO for the purposes of the HMO Act.\nA copy of the ANUK/UNIPOL Code of Standards for Larger Residential Developments for Student Accommodation Managed and Controlled by Educational Establishments dated 28th August 2008 can be obtained from the National Codes Administrator, 155-157 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 3ED, by emailing NationalCodes@unipol.org.uk or online at www.nationalcode.org or www.anuk.org.uk.\nA copy of Universities UK / Guild HE Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing dated 17th August 2010 can be obtained from Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ, by emailing info@universitiesuk.ac.uk or online at www.universitiesuk.ac.uk.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/36/note",
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  "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."
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