Local authorities have an interim duty to provide temporary accommodation under section 188, subsection (1); 190, subsection (2); 199A, subsection (2); 199A, subsection (4)(c); and 200, subsection (1) of the Housing Act 1996, where the relevant conditions are met. Section 209, subsection (1) already contains an exemption to ensure that interim temporary accommodation provided under section 188, 190 or 200 will not create an assured tenancy, other than in the specified conditions set out in section 209, subsection (2). Section 199A applies when a local authority accepts a relief duty to provide interim temporary accommodation, whilst it refers that relief duty under section 198(A1) to another local authority where the applicant is considered to have a local connection, pending its decision.
	Section 199A was inserted into the Housing Act 1996 by the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and came into force on 3 April 2018. This post-dates section 209. This section inserts section 199A into section 209, subsection (1) alongside the other specified sections where local authorities have an interim duty or discretion to provide temporary accommodation.
	The Secretary of State had an existing power under paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988 allowing them to name by regulations landlords of student tenancies which would not be assured tenancies. This section expands that power, to allow the exemption from the assured tenancy regime to be granted to any landlord or person managing the building or tenancy who is subject to codes of practice approved under section 233 of the Housing Act 2004.
Part 1: Tenancy reform Chapter 2: Tenancies that cannot be assured tenancies Section 32: Accommodation for homeless people or students Background