Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024

1 The register

(1) The Scottish Ministers are to maintain a register of buildings (“the cladding assurance register”).

(2) An entry for a building is to be created in the register once a single-building assessment has been carried out in relation to it.

(3) A building’s entry in the register—

(a) must, when first created, include the following information—

(i) when a single-building assessment was carried out in relation to it,

(ii) what work (if any) a single-building assessment report identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by the building’s external wall cladding system,

(b) must be amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after any additional work assessment is carried out in relation to it, to include the following information—

(i) when the additional work assessment was carried out,

(ii) what additional work (if any) the additional work assessment report identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by the building’s external wall cladding system,

(c) must be amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that any work mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii) and any work mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) has been completed, to include the date on which they were so satisfied,

(d) may include any other information that the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.

(4) The Scottish Ministers may amend an entry in the register if they consider any information contained in it to be inaccurate.

(5) The Scottish Ministers may charge for access to the register.