{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-258",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004/section-258.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/34",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/258",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "258",
  "heading": "HMOs: persons not forming a single household",
  "text": "(1) This section sets out when persons are to be regarded as not forming a single household for the purposes of section 254.\n(2) Persons are to be regarded as not forming a single household unless—\n(a) they are all members of the same family, or\n(b) their circumstances are circumstances of a description specified for the purposes of this section in regulations made by the appropriate national authority.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a) a person is a member of the same family as another person if—\n(a) those persons are married to , or civil partners of, each other or live together as if they were a married couple or civil partners;\n(b) one of them is a relative of the other; or\n(c) one of them is, or is a relative of, one member of a couple and the other is a relative of the other member of the couple.\n(4) For those purposes—\n(a) a “couple” means two persons who ... fall within subsection (3)(a);\n(b) “relative” means parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or cousin;\n(c) a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood; and\n(d) the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child.\n(5) Regulations under subsection (2)(b) may, in particular, secure that a group of persons are to be regarded as forming a single household only where (as the regulations may require) each member of the group has a prescribed relationship, or at least one of a number of prescribed relationships, to any one or more of the others.\n(6) In subsection (5) “prescribed relationship” means any relationship of a description specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 258(3)(a) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 26(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 258(4)(a) omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 26(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 258 wholly in force at 18.1.2005; s. 258 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent and in force otherwise at 18.1.2005, see s. 270(2)(b)(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/34/section/258",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:48.975968+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."
}