Building Safety Act 2022

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Amendments (95)

Jurisdiction	UK Non-devolved
Citation	2022 c. 30
Year	2022

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Building Safety Act 2022
Part 1: Introduction

1: Overview of Act

Part 2: The regulator and its functions

The regulator and its general functions

2: The building safety regulator
3: The regulator: objectives and regulatory principles
4: Duty to facilitate building safety: higher-risk buildings
5: Duty to keep safety and standard of buildings under review
6: Facilitating improvement in competence of industry and building inspectors
7: Proposals and consultation relating to regulations
8: Duty to establish system for giving of building safety information

Committees

9: Building Advisory Committee
10: Committee on industry competence
11: Residents’ panel
12: Committees: power to amend or repeal

Staffing etc

13: Local authorities and fire and rescue authorities: assistance etc to regulator
14: FSO authorised persons: assistance etc to regulator
15: Provision of assistance etc: supplementary
16: Guidance about the provision of assistance

Plans and reports

17: Strategic plan
18: Revised strategic plans
19: Annual report about information provided under mandatory reporting requirements
20: Statement of regulator’s engagement with residents etc
21: Report on certain safety-related matters

Enforcement

22: Authorised officers
23: Authorised officers: offences
24: Provision of false or misleading information to regulator

Reviews and appeals

25: Review by regulator of certain decisions made by it
26: Right of appeal: requirement for review before appeal

Supplementary and general

27: Cooperation and information sharing
28: Fees and charges
29: Service of documents
30: Interpretation of Part 2

Part 3: Building Act 1984

Building control authorities and building regulations

31: Higher-risk buildings etc
32: Building control authorities
33: Building regulations
34: Dutyholders and general duties
35: Industry competence
36: Lapse of building control approval etc
37: Determination of certain applications by Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers
38: Compliance and stop notices
39: Breach of building regulations
40: Liability of officers of body corporate etc
41: Revocation etc of certain provision made under section 2(2) of ECA 1972

Building control approvers and building inspectors

42: Regulation of building control profession
43: Transfer of approved inspectors’ functions to registered building control approvers
44: Functions exercisable only through, or with advice of, registered building inspectors
45: Default powers of appropriate national authority
46: Higher-risk building work: registered building control approvers
47: Higher-risk building work: public bodies
48: Insurance: removal of requirements
49: Plans certificates
50: Cancellation of initial notice
51: New initial notices
52: Information gathering
53: Information

Miscellaneous and general

54: Functions under Part 3 of Building Act 1984
55: Minor and consequential amendments
56: Appeals
57: Fees and charges
58: Levy on applications for building control approval etc
59: Crown application
60: Application to Parliament

Part 4: Higher-risk buildings

Introduction

61: Overview of Part

Meaning of “building safety risk”

62: Meaning of “building safety risk”
63: Recommendations about regulations under section 62
64: Advice about regulations under section 62

Meaning of “higher-risk building”

65: Meaning of “higher-risk building” etc
66: Regulations under section 65: procedure
67: Regulations under section 65: additional procedure in certain cases
68: Modification of Part in relation to certain kinds of higher-risk building
69: Recommendations about definition of “higher-risk building” etc
70: Advice about definition of “higher-risk building” etc

Meaning of “accountable person” and other key definitions

71: Meaning of “occupied” higher-risk building etc
72: Meaning of “accountable person”
73: Meaning of “principal accountable person”
74: Part of building for which an accountable person is responsible
75: Determinations by the tribunal

Registration and certificates

76: Requirement for completion certificate before occupation
77: Occupation: registration requirement
78: Registration of higher-risk buildings
79: Occupied building: duty to apply for building assessment certificate
80: Applications for building assessment certificates
81: Building assessment certificates
82: Duty to display building assessment certificate etc

Duties relating to building safety risks

83: Assessment of building safety risks
84: Management of building safety risks
85: Safety case report
86: Notification and provision of report to the regulator

Duties relating to information and documents

87: Mandatory reporting requirements
88: Keeping information about higher-risk buildings
89: Provision of information etc to the regulator, residents and other persons
90: Provision of information etc on change in accountable person

Engagement with residents etc

91: Residents’ engagement strategy
92: Requests for further information
93: Complaints procedure operated by principal accountable person
94: Complaints procedure operated by the regulator

Residents' etc duties

95: Duties on residents and owners
96: Contravention notices
97: Access to premises

Enforcement

98: Duty on regulator to enforce Part
99: Compliance notices
100: Compliance notices: supplementary
101: Offence: contravention giving rise to risk of death and serious injury

Special measures

102: Special measures

Appeals etc

103: Appeals against compliance notice etc
104: Appeals against decisions of the regulator made under this Part
105: Appeals against decisions of the regulator made under regulations
106: Appeals: supplementary
107: Enforcement of decisions of the First-tier and Upper Tribunal

Miscellaneous and general

108: Guidance
109: Cooperation and coordination
110: Managers appointed under Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
111: Building safety directors of resident management companies

Landlord and tenant etc

112: Implied terms in leases and recovery of safety related costs
113: Provision of building safety information
114: Commonholds

Interpretation

115: Interpretation of Part 4

Part 5: Other provision about safety, standards etc

Remediation of certain defects

116: Remediation of certain defects
117: Meaning of “relevant building”
118: Section 117: height of buildings and number of storeys
119: Meaning of “qualifying lease” and “the qualifying time”
^F6 119A: Meaning of “connected replacement lease”
^F8 120: Meaning of “relevant defect” and “relevant steps”
121: Associated persons
122: Remediation costs under qualifying leases etc
123: Remediation orders
124: Remediation contribution orders
^F23

125: Meeting remediation costs of insolvent landlord

^F24 Insolvency of certain persons with an interest in higher-risk and relevant buildings

125A: Notifications by insolvency practitioners

Building industry schemes

126: Building industry schemes
127: Building industry schemes: supplementary

Prohibitions on development and building control

128: Prohibition on development for prescribed persons
129: Building control prohibitions

Building liability orders

130: Building liability orders
131: Building liability orders: associates
132: Order for information in connection with building liability order

Remediation and redress: other provisions

133: Service charges in respect of remediation works
134: Duties relating to work to dwellings etc
135: Limitation periods

New homes ombudsman scheme

136: Establishment of the new homes ombudsman scheme
137: The new homes ombudsman scheme
138: “Relevant owner”, “new build home” and “developer”
139: Regulations under section 138
140: Power to require persons to join scheme and to provide information
141: Register of members
142: Developers’ code of practice
143: Amendment of the Government of Wales Act 2006

New build home warranties

144: New build home warranties
145: New build home warranties: financial penalties

Construction products

146: Construction products

Liability relating to construction products

147: Liability relating to construction products: general definitions
148: Liability relating to construction products
149: Liability for past defaults relating to cladding products
150: Liability relating to construction products: limitation in England and Wales
151: Liability relating to construction products: limitation in Scotland

Construction products: costs contribution orders

152: Costs contribution orders: general definitions
153: Costs contribution orders made by courts
154: Costs contribution orders made by the Secretary of State
155: Costs contribution orders: assessments

Fire safety

156: Amendment of Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

Architects

157: Architects: discipline and continuing professional development...

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