Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024

8 Power to arrange urgent remediation work

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

(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—

(i) in a single-building assessment report or an additional work assessment report, or

(ii) by a person carrying out a single-building assessment or an additional work assessment raising the risk with the Scottish Ministers before completing the assessment, and

(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.