The Licensing and Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation and Other Houses (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2006
These Regulations make provision in respect of a number of miscellaneous matters relating to provisions of the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act.”). These are: Part 2 (licensing of HMOs), Part 3 (selective licensing), Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 4 (management orders) and section 254 (meaning of HMO) of the Act. They—specify the circumstances when persons are to be regarded as forming a single household for the purposes of deciding whether a building is an HMO within any of the descriptions in section 254 of the Act (regulations 3 and 4);provide that migrant workers, seasonal workers and asylum seekers are to be treated as occupying certain premises as their only or main residence (regulation 5);specify a description of buildings that are not HMOs for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1) (regulation 6 and Schedule 1);make provision about applications for licences under Part 2 or 3 of the Act, including the information that must be supplied with an application (regulation 7 and Schedule 2);specify the standards to be applied when determining the suitability of a house for multiple occupation for licensing under Part 2 of the Act (regulation 8 and Schedule 3);specify the manner in which designations of areas under Part 2 or 3 of the Act, and revocations of such designations, must be published (regulations 9 and 10); andspecify the information that must be contained in registers held by local housing authorities of licences granted under Part 2 or 3, of temporary exemption notices that exempt a house from licensing and of management orders (regulations 11, 12 and 13).