Statute
Section 325 — Housing Act 1985: The room standard.
Text of the provision Official document
The room standard. 325 1 The room standard is contravened when the number of persons sleeping in a dwelling and the number of rooms available as sleeping accommodation is such that two persons of opposite sexes who are not living together as a married couple or civil partners must sleep in the same room.
2 For this purpose—
a children under the age of ten shall be left out of account, and b a room is available as sleeping accommodation if it is of a type normally used in the locality either as a bedroom or as a living room.
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