PART 1 E+W SAFETY OF BUILDINGS CONTAINING TWO OR MORE RESIDENTIAL UNITS

Prospective

CHAPTER 5 E+W DUTIES APPLYING ONLY TO OCCUPIED CATEGORY 1 BUILDINGS

Recording and reporting in relation to building safety risks E+W

38 Occurrence recording system: duty of principal accountable person E+W

(1) The principal accountable person for an occupied category 1 building must establish and operate an occurrence recording system for the purpose of enabling the accountable persons for the building to comply with section 39 (reporting to building safety authority and fire safety authority).

(2) An “occurrence recording system” is a system for—

(a) receiving and recording information about incidents or situations that result from, give rise to or are otherwise connected with building safety risks relating to the building, and

(b) giving that information to accountable persons for the building.

(3) The principal accountable person must establish and start to operate the occurrence recording system as soon as possible after the latest of the following events occurs—

(a) the building becomes occupied;

(b) the building becomes a category 1 building;

(c) the person becomes the principal accountable person for the building;

(d) this section comes into force.

(4) An occurrence recording system for a building must comply with any requirements imposed by regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

(5) Those requirements may, in particular, include requirements relating to—

(a) the incidents or situations about which information is to be received;

(b) the persons from whom information is to be received (for example, residents or accountable persons);

(c) how information is to be received and recorded;

(d) the assessment of information that is received;

(e) the review of occurrence recording systems.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 38 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 138(2)