The Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2024

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are the sixth commencement regulations made under the Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30) (“the Act”).

Regulation 2 brings into force various sections in Part 4 of the Act. Namely, sections 79 to 82 which impose requirements with regard to registration of occupied higher-risk buildings and obtaining and displaying a building assessment certificate for such a building; sections 83 to 86 which impose duties with regard to assessing and managing building safety risks, the safety case report and its provision to the regulator; sections 87, 88 and 90 which impose and are in relation to duties to report certain safety information, keeping prescribed information and documents for higher-risk buildings and for sharing that information and documents with various interested parties; sections 91 to 94 which impose requirements in relation to a resident engagement strategy for a higher-risk building, requests by residents for further information or documents about their building, and the complaints procedures to be operated by the principal accountable person and the building safety regulator (“the regulator”); sections 95 to 97 which impose duties on residents and provide for contravention notices when those duties are breached and for access to residential units; sections 98 to 101 which impose requirements in relation to enforcement by the regulator; section 102 (and the accompanying Schedule 7) which creates the special measures regime, an enforcement tool of last resort; and section 111 of the Act makes provisions in relation to articles of associations of resident management companies.

An impact assessment has been produced in relation to the Act and copies can be obtained at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0139/BuildingSafetyBillImpactAssessment.pdf or from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities at 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom.