http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/753/regulation/3The Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023enBUILDING AND BUILDINGS, ENGLANDStatute Law Database2024-05-30Expert Participation2024-04-25 These regulations establish the Responsible Actors Scheme (“the scheme”) and the prohibitions under the Act. They identify certain developers who are eligible to become members of the scheme, and, as a condition of membership, require such developers to enter into and comply with a contract with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under which they are to, among other things, remediate relevant residential buildings for which they are responsible at their own expense and reimburse to the government amounts paid out by government remediation funds to remediate buildings for which they are responsible. PART 1IntroductionRelevant buildings 3 1 In these Regulations, a relevant building means a building which— a is a residential building, b is at least 11 metres high and located in England, and c has been developed or refurbished during the period starting on 5th April 1992 and ending on 4th April 2022 (“the relevant period”). 2 For the purposes of paragraph (1), a “residential building” is a self-contained building or self-contained part of a building, which— a contains, at the date these Regulations come into force, at least one dwelling held under the terms of a lease with a term exceeding 21 years or as commonhold land, or b is owned by a registered provider of social housing. 3 A building does not cease to be a residential building because it also contains premises which are not dwellings. 4 In this regulation— a section 117 of the Act applies for the purposes of determining whether a building or part of a building is self-contained; b the height of a building will be determined in accordance with the definition of “Building” in the Self Remediation Terms. Reg. 3 in force at 4.7.2023, see reg. 1(1)
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