PART 3Minimum level of energy efficiency

CHAPTER 4Exemptions – domestic and non-domestic PR property

Consent exemption31

1

Subject to paragraph (2), regulations 23 and 27 do not apply at any time when the landlord has, within the preceding five years, been unable to increase the energy performance indicator for the property to not less than the minimum level of energy efficiency as a result of—

a

the tenant refusing—

i

consent to any relevant energy efficiency improvement being made, or

ii

to give any confirmation which must be obtained from the tenant by virtue of regulation 36 of the Framework Regulations before any green deal plan with which the landlord proposed to fund the making of the relevant energy efficiency improvement could be entered into, or

b

despite reasonable efforts by the landlord to obtain third party consent, that consent having been—

i

refused, or

ii

granted subject to a condition with which the landlord cannot reasonably comply.

2

A landlord may rely on the exemption in paragraph (1) only where the landlord has registered information in accordance with regulation 36(2).