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Section 62: Student accommodation that is not an HMO

Renters' Rights Act 2025 · 2025 c. 26View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Tenancy reform — Chapter 7: Miscellaneous

Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (buildings which are not HMOs) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (4).

After paragraph 3 insert—

Any regulations made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 before the coming into force of this section are to continue to have effect on and after the coming into force of this section as if made under paragraph 3A of that Schedule (inserted by this section).

In paragraph 4 (buildings occupied by students)—

in the heading, after "students" insert ;": Wales"
in sub-paragraph (1), in the words before paragraph (a), after "building" insert ."in Wales"
in sub-paragraph (2), for "appropriate national authority" substitute ."Welsh Ministers"
in sub-paragraph (3), for "appropriate national authority" substitute ."Welsh Ministers"
in sub-paragraph (4)—
in the words before paragraph (a), for "appropriate national authority may have regard to the extent to which, in its opinion" substitute ;"Welsh Ministers may have regard to the extent to which, in their opinion"
in paragraph (a), for "authority" substitute ."Welsh Ministers"

In consequence of the other amendments made by this section—

in paragraph 16E(3) of Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 2019 (inserted by Schedule 1 to the Finance Act 2025) (meaning of "institutional building"), in paragraph (i)(i) and (ii) (buildings occupied by students), for "paragraph 4" substitute ;"paragraph 3A or 4"
in the Capital Allowances Act 2001, in section 270CF (exclusion from qualifying use: residential use), in subsection (1)(b), for "paragraph 4" substitute ."paragraph 3A or 4"

Any regulations made by the Treasury under paragraph 16E(3)(i)(ii) of Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 2019 before the coming into force of this section which designate provision as provision corresponding to paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 are to continue to have effect on and after the coming into force of this section as if they designated the provision as provision corresponding to paragraph 3A or 4 of that Schedule.

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