
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Assured and Protected Tenancies (Lettings to Students) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 15th January 1989.
2 
In these Regulations—
 “assisted” has the same meaning as in section 114(2)(b) of the Education Act 1944;
 “further education” means—
(a) full-time and part-time education for persons over compulsory school age (including vocational, social, physical and recreational training); and
(b) organised leisure-time occupation provided in connection with the provision of such education;but does not include higher education;
 “higher education” means education provided by means of a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988;
 “publicly funded” shall mean that the relevant institution is—
(a) provided or assisted by a local education authority;
(b) in receipt of grant under regulations made under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944; or
(c) within the PCFC funding sector by virtue of section 132 of the Education Reform Act 1988; and
 “the relevant enactments” means section 8 of the Rent Act 1977 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988 (lettings to students).
3 
The following institutions are hereby specified as educational institutions for the purposes of the relevant enactments, that is to say—
(a) any university or university college and any constituent college, school or hall or other institution of a university;
(b) any other institution which provides further education or higher education or both and which is publicly funded;
(c) the David Game Tutorial College, London.
4 
The following bodies of persons (whether unincorporated or bodies corporate) are hereby specified as bodies for the purposes of the relevant enactments, that is to say—
(a) the governing body of any educational institution specified in Regulation 3 above;
(b) the body, other than a local education authority, providing any such educational institution, and
(c) a body listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.
5 
The Protected Tenancies (Exceptions) Regulations 1986 and the Protected Tenancies (Exceptions) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 are hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE


 AFSIL Limited
 Birmingham Friendship Housing Association
 Bishop Creighton House, London
 Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham
 Ducane Housing Association Limited
 The City University Students' Union
 Hamtun Housing Association Limited, Southampton
 Hull Students Welfare Association
 International Students Housing Society, Woolwich
 International Students Trust, London
 Leicester University Students Union
 London House for Overseas Graduates, London
 Oxford Overseas Student Housing Association Limited
 Oxford Polytechnic Housing Association Limited
 St Thomas More Housing Society Limited, Oxford
 Student Homes Limited, London
 The University of Sussex Catholic Chaplaincy Association
 Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, London
 Wandsworth Students Housing Association Limited
 York Housing Association Limited

Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
19th December 1988Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
21st December 1988