{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-health-and-safety-rating-system-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-health-and-safety-rating-system-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-health-and-safety-rating-system-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 2004;\n“harm” means harm which is within any of the four classes of harm set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;\n“inspector” means a person carrying out an inspection under section 4 of the Act (inspections by local housing authorities to see whether a category 1 or 2 hazard exists); andexcept in regulation 6(7)(e), “occupier” includes potential occupier.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (23.6.2026) by The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/571), regs. 1(1), 3 (with reg. 10) (as amended by S.I. 2026/629, regs. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3208/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:07.715449+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."
}