PART 3Minimum level of energy efficiency

CHAPTER 5Enforcement Authorities and Compliance – domestic and non-domestic PR property

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1

The Secretary of State must establish and maintain a system (the “PRS Exemptions Register”) which enables—

a

information to be registered in accordance with paragraph (2) or regulation 37(2),

b

the Secretary of State and enforcement authorities to access information registered on it, and held on it, as necessary to enable them to carry out their functions under these Regulations, and

c

the Secretary of State to publish the following information relating to any domestic PR property, or non-domestic PR property, in respect of which information has been registered in accordance with paragraph (2)—

i

the address of the property,

ii

where the landlord is not an individual, the name of the landlord,

iii

the exemption relied on,

iv

a copy of the valid energy performance certificate for the property,

v

the date on which information was registered in accordance with paragraph (2), and

d

every enforcement authority to publish information in accordance with regulation 39.

2

In any case where a landlord of a sub-standard domestic PR property, or a sub-standard non-domestic PR property, wishes to rely on one or more of the following regulations, the landlord must register the information set out in the Schedule on the PRS Exemptions Register—

a

regulation 24(2),

b

regulation 25,

c

regulation 28(2),

d

regulation 29,

e

regulation 31(1),

f

regulation 32(1),

g

regulation 33(1) or (3).