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77: Clause 33, page 49, line 39, insert— “(2CA) The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument—(a) specify a person appointed to act on the landlord’s behalf in respect of the tenancy or to discharge management functions in respect of the building or a class of such persons,(b) specify a class of building in relation to the specified person or specified class of persons, and(c) provide that a tenancy—(i) does not fall within this paragraph if the dwelling-house is in the specified class of building and there is a person appointed to act on the landlord’s behalf in respect of the tenancy or to discharge management functions in respect of the building who is specified or is in the specified class of such persons, or(ii) falls within this paragraph only if the dwelling-house is in the specified class of building and there is a person appointed to act on the landlord’s behalf in respect of the tenancy or to discharge management functions in respect of the building who is specified or is in the specified class of such persons.”Member's explanatory statement This makes provision which corresponds to the new sub-paragraph (2C) but which operates in relation to the case where a tenancy of student accommodation is not an assured tenancy because the person appointed to act on behalf of the landlord or to discharge management functions in respect of the building concerned is a member of a “housing management code of practice”.