The Secretary of State may make regulations providing that specified property, or a specified class of property, is or is not to be treated as social housing for the purposes of this Part.
The regulations may provide for property to be social housing despite not satisfying section 68(1)(a) or (b) where the Secretary of State thinks the property is of a kind, or is provided in circumstances, that serve the needs of a group whose needs are not adequately served by the commercial housing market.
The regulations—
may override section 68(2),
are subject to sections 68(3) and 77, and
are subject to sections 69 and 70 (but may clarify doubt about the application of those sections).
The regulations—
may make provision by reference to the opinion of the regulator or another specified person, and
may make provision by reference to designation, agreement or other action by the regulator or another specified person.