Does Right to Rent apply to your holiday let?

How the code of practice defines an only or main home

Read that carefully and you will see why the answer cannot be printed on a card. It is a statement about the occupier's life, not about the length of your booking or the heading on your paperwork. Two guests staying the same fortnight in the same cottage can fall on opposite sides of it.

A word about Schedule 3

That distinction is not academic. If your protection came from Schedule 3, it would be a fixed category and you could file it away. Because it comes instead from the only-or-main-residence condition in section 20, it is a question of fact about the booking in front of you, and it can move. Section 20 also allows the Secretary of State to amend Schedule 3 by order, so the list itself is not frozen.

Read the code on the day you rely on it

Keep both versions in view. The version dated 13 February 2024 carries an update of 30 June 2026, and a further version is stated to come into force on 1 October 2026. Where a scheme is being revised, read the text on the day you rely on it, not the version you remember.