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To assure compliance, in app setup we recommend to TICK the
option:
[ ] auto send EPC, photos, floor plans is enabled to assure
compliance with Part 2, S6 para (b)(i) & (ii)
Else if a prospect comes direct and not through a website then
information may have been made available verbally and the EPC
regulations might be breached.

Gas Safe Certificates: Annual gas safety checks must be conducted
by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Tenants must be given a record of
the check, either within 28 days of it, or in the case of a new
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tenancy, before they move in . This is why in the ‘Welcome &
Utilities’ step ‘gas safe certificates’ are pre-ticked to auto send.

To assure compliance in app setup, we recommend to TICK the
option:
[ ] auto send Gas Safe Certificate to assure compliance with Gas
safe certificate The Gas Safety (Installation and Use)
Regulations 1998

HMO Licences:
For the purposes of the Housing Act 2004 a building or a part of a
building is a “house in multiple occupation” if as defined by
Section 254 it:

(a) meets the conditions in subsection (2) (“the standard test”);
(b) meets the conditions in subsection (3) (“the self-contained flat test”);
(c) meets the conditions in subsection (4) (“the converted building test”);
(d) an HMO declaration is in force in respect of it under section 255; or
(e) is a converted block of flats to which section 257 applies.
See Appendix 8 for more details.

As part of mobilisation as Operator Ringley would deal with HMO registrations of which under the
Housing Act 2004, Part 2 there are four types:
1) HMO Licence bedsits - S254(2)(a) Housing Act 2004,

2) HMO Licence unit > 3 storeys, 5 persons, 2+ households – S55(2)(a) Housing Act 2004 which refers to
the Licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (Prescribed Descriptions) (England) 2006 S3(3).
3) HMO ‘designated area’ - (Part 2, S56) Housing Act 2004,
4) Selective Licence 2+ households in flat - (Part 3, S79-80) Housing Act 2004.

Typically, licences will be required because the building is more than three storeys, sharers in three bed
apartments is more than 2 single person households and/or the building may be situated in a designated
area. Licences generally last for a maximum of five years. There is a presumption in the Act that the
licence holder will be the landlord and on sale the new landlord will have to apply for new HMO

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