Part 4Higher-risk buildings
Registration and certificates
I179Occupied building: duty to apply for building assessment certificate
1
This section applies where the regulator directs the principal accountable person for an occupied higher-risk building to apply to the regulator for a building assessment certificate in relation to the building.
2
The principal accountable person for the building must make the application within the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the direction is given.
3
A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence.
4
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
a
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum summary term for either-way offences or a fine (or both);
b
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);
and (in either case) is liable on summary conviction to a further fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale for each day on which the default continues after the initial conviction.
5
In this section “building assessment certificate” means a certificate issued under section 81.