The Renting Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Jurisdiction | Wales |
Citation | SI 2022/6 (W4) |
Year | 2022 |
- “period of occupation” (“cyfnod meddiannaeth”) means, in relation to an occupation contract, the period—
- (a) starting with the occupation date of the contract, and
- (b) ending when the contract ends; and
- “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016.
- “gas” (“nwy”) has the meaning given by section 48(1) of the Gas Act 1986;
- “gas appliance” (“cyfarpar nwy”) means an appliance designed for use by a consumer of gas for heating, lighting, cooking or other purposes for which gas can be used, but it does not include—
- (a) a portable or mobile appliance supplied with gas from a cylinder, or the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that appliance, or
- (b) an appliance which the contract-holder is entitled to remove from the dwelling under the terms of the occupation contract;
- “room” (“ystafell”) includes a hall, landing or corridor.
- “electrical safety inspection” (“archwiliad diogelwch trydanol”) means the inspection and testing of every electrical service installation in a dwelling in accordance with the electrical safety standards;
- “electrical safety standards” (“safonau diogelwch trydanol”) means the standards for electrical service installations set out in the eighteenth edition of the Wiring Regulations, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Standards Institution as BS 7671:2018+A1:2020;
- “electrical service installation” (“gosodiad gwasanaeth trydanol”) means an installation for the supply of electricity; and references to an electrical service installation in a dwelling include, where the dwelling forms part only of a building, an electrical service installation which directly or indirectly serves the dwelling, and which either—
- (a) forms part of any part of the building in which the landlord has an estate or interest, or
- (b) is owned by the landlord or is under the landlord’s control;
- “qualified person” (“person cymwysedig”) means a person who is competent to undertake the inspection and testing of an electrical service installation, and any further investigative or remedial work, in accordance with the electrical safety standards;
- “written confirmation of work” (“cadarnhad ysgrifenedig o’r gwaith”) means, in relation to investigatory or remedial work, a copy of written confirmation, from a qualified person, that the work in question has been carried out.
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