Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024

3 Power to arrange single-building assessment

(1) The Scottish Ministers may arrange for a single-building assessment to be carried out in relation to a building.

(2) Anything that needs to be done on premises for the purposes of carrying out an assessment arranged under subsection (1) may not be done, without the consent of the premises’ owner, before the end of the notice period.

(3) The notice period is a period of 7 days beginning with the day that the Scottish Ministers give the premises’ owner a written notice explaining what the carrying out of the assessment may entail.

(4) At the same time as giving notice to the premises’ owner in order to begin the notice period, the Scottish Ministers are to give a written notice in the same terms to any occupier of the premises.

4 Power to arrange additional work assessment

(1) The Scottish Ministers may arrange for an additional work assessment to be carried out in relation to a building in relation to which a single-building assessment has been carried out.

(2) Subsection (3) applies where—

(a)

(a) something needs to be done on premises for the purposes of carrying out an assessment arranged under subsection (1), and

(b)

(b) the premises are not premises on which a person carrying out work under an arrangement made under this Chapter is entitled, by virtue of section 13, to do anything reasonably required to carry out that work.

(3) Anything that needs to be done on the premises for the purposes of carrying out an assessment arranged under subsection (1) may not be done, without the consent of the owner, before the end of the notice period.

(4) The notice period is a period of 7 days beginning with the day that the Scottish Ministers give the premises’ owner a written notice explaining what the carrying out of the assessment may entail.

(5) At the same time as giving notice to the premises’ owner in order to begin the notice period, the Scottish Ministers are to give a written notice in the same terms to any occupier of the premises.

5 Power to require information for assessments and the register

(1) The Scottish Ministers may require any person to supply them with information which is reasonably required—

(a)

(a) by a person for the purpose of carrying out a single-building assessment or an additional work assessment, or

(b)

(b) by them for the purpose of maintaining the cladding assurance register.

(2) A requirement under subsection (1) is imposed on a person by the Scottish Ministers giving the person a written notice specifying—

(a)

(a) the information, or the nature of the information, which is to be supplied,

(b)

(b) the form in which it is to be supplied,

(c)

(c) the date on or by which it is to be supplied,

(d)

(d) why it is required.

(3) A person may not be required under subsection (1) to supply information which that person would be entitled to refuse to provide in proceedings in a court in Scotland.

(4) The Scottish Ministers may relieve a person from a requirement to supply information under subsection (1) by giving the person a written notice to that effect.

(5) In this section, “information” includes unrecorded information.

6 Offence of failing to comply with requirement under section 5

(1) A person who is required under section 5(1) to supply information commits an offence if the person fails, without reasonable excuse, to supply the information in the required form by the date on or by which it is to be supplied.

(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

7 Power to arrange remediation work

(1) The Scottish Ministers may arrange for work to be carried out that is identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by a building’s external wall cladding system in—

(a)

(a) a single-building assessment report, or

(b)

(b) an additional work assessment report.

(2) Work arranged under subsection (1)(a) or (b) may not begin on premises, without the consent of the premises’ owner—

(a)

(a) before the end of the notice period in relation to the work identified as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or, as the case may be, (b), or

(b)

(b) if an appeal against the decision to arrange for the work to be carried out is made within that period, before the appeal is finally determined or withdrawn.

(3) The notice period is a period of 21 days beginning with the day that the Scottish Ministers give the premises’ owner a written notice explaining—

(a)

(a) what work is to be carried out,

(b)

(b) what a person carrying it out is entitled to do by section 13,

(c)

(c) the right to appeal under section 12 against the decision to arrange for the work to be carried out.

(4) At the same time as giving notice to the premises’ owner in order to begin the notice period, the Scottish Ministers are to give a written notice in the same terms to any occupier of the premises.

8 Power to arrange urgent remediation work

(1) The Scottish Ministers may arrange for work to be carried out where—

(a)

(a) the work is identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate a risk to human life that is (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by a building’s external wall cladding system either—

(b)

(b) the risk to human life is so immediate that it would be inappropriate to delay the work starting by arranging for it to be carried out under section 7 instead.

(2) Where the Scottish Ministers arrange under subsection (1) for work to be carried out on premises, they are to give the premises’ owners and occupiers such notice of the work (if any) as the circumstances permit.

9 Power to evacuate

(1) The Scottish Ministers may require the occupants of premises to remove from them in any of the...