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<Text>The Welsh Ministers‍ must by regulations require an accountable person for a regulated building to keep—</Text>
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<Text>relevant information specified in the regulations;</Text>
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<Text>relevant documents specified in the regulations.</Text>
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<Text>The regulations may, in particular, make provision about—</Text>
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<Text>the time for which relevant information or a relevant document must be kept (which may include requiring it to be kept indefinitely);</Text>
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<Text>how it must be kept;</Text>
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<Text>the form in which it must be kept.</Text>
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<Text>The regulations may impose requirements subject to conditions or exceptions.</Text>
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<Text>Where an accountable person is required to keep relevant information or a relevant document, but does not have it, the person must obtain the information or the document unless it is not practicable to do so.</Text>
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<Text>An accountable person who is required to keep relevant information must so far as possible ensure that the information is accurate and is kept up to date.</Text>
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<Text>In this section—</Text>
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<Text>information and documents are “relevant” if they relate to a part of a building for which an accountable person is responsible;</Text>
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<Text>except in paragraph (a) of this subsection, references to an accountable person include a person who is treated as an accountable person by virtue of section 36.</Text>
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