# The Social Housing Rents (Exceptions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2016, Regulation 17: Exemptions for private registered providers of social housing

Extent: E+W

(1) The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of section 25(5) of and paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2 to the Act as the condition for the issue of a direction by the regulator are as set out in paragraph (2).
(2) The circumstances are that—
(a) the private registered provider has received a transfer of particular social housing from another private registered provider (“the transferee”); and
(b) immediately before the social housing became the transferee’s social housing a direction under regulation 15, or under section 25 of, or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the Act applied in relation to the social housing.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/390/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016/regulation-17
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