PART 4REMEDIATION OF CERTAIN DEFECTS

114Remediation orders

(1)

The Welsh Ministers must by regulations—

(a)

provide that a residential property tribunal may make a remediation order on the application of an interested person;

(b)

make further provision in connection with remediation orders.

(2)

A remediation order is an order requiring a relevant landlord or management company to do one or both of the following by a specified time—

(a)

remedy specified relevant defects in a specified relevant building;

(b)

take specified relevant steps in relation to a specified relevant defect in a specified relevant building.

(3)

In subsections (1) and (2)—

“interested person” (“person a chanddo fuddiant”), in relation to a relevant building, means—

(a)

the building safety authority for the building;

(b)

the fire safety authority for the building;

(c)

a person with a legal or equitable interest in the building or any part of it;

(d)

any other person specified, or of a description specified, in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;

“relevant landlord or management company” (“landlord perthnasol neu gwmni rheoli perthnasol”), in relation to a relevant defect in a relevant building, means a person who—

(a)

is a landlord under a lease of the building or any part of it, or a party to such a lease otherwise than as landlord or tenant, and

(b)

is required, under the lease or by virtue of an enactment, to repair or maintain anything relating to the defect;

“specified” (“penodedig”) means specified in the remediation order.

(4)

The Welsh Ministers must lay a draft of a Welsh statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) before Senedd Cymru before the end of the period of 9 months beginning with the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent.