The Secure Tenancies (Designated Courses) Regulations 1980

Made: 17th September 1980

Coming into Operation: 3rd October 1980

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 151 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to, the Housing Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and Commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Secure Tenancies (Designated Courses) Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 3rd October 1980.

Designated Courses

2

There are hereby designated for the purposes of paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Housing Act 1980—

• (a) any full-time course to which section 1 of the Education Act 1962[^f00001] from time to time applies;

• (b) any full-time post-graduate course, that is to say, a course to which only students who hold a first degree of a university or an equivalent qualification are admitted; and

• (c) any other full-time course provided by an establishment of further education which is maintained or assisted by a local education authority or in respect of the maintenance of which grants are for the time being paid in pursuance of Regulations made under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944.

Signed

Michael R.D. Heseltine — Secretary of State for the Environment — 16th September 1980

Nicholas Edwards — Secretary of State for Wales — 17th September 1980

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Under paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Housing Act 1980 and subject to the provisions thereof, a tenancy is not a secure tenancy (within the meaning of that Act) if it was granted for the purpose of enabling the tenant to attend a designated course at a university or establishment of further education.

These Regulations designate courses for the purposes of paragraph 11 of Schedule 3. The courses in question are full-time courses to which section 1 of the Education Act 1962 applies (i.e. courses which attract mandatory awards), post-graduate courses and other full-time courses provided by establishments of further education maintained or assisted out of public funds.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: amended by section 19 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20) and Schedule 5 thereto.