Building Safety Act 2022

124 Remediation contribution orders

(1) The First-tier Tribunal may, on the application of an interested person, make a remediation contribution order in relation to a relevant building if it considers it just and equitable to do so.

(2) “Remediation contribution order”, in relation to a relevant building, means an order requiring a specified body corporate or partnership to make payments to a specified person, for the purpose of meeting costs incurred or to be incurred in remedying relevant defects (or specified relevant defects) relating to the relevant building.

(3) A body corporate or partnership may be specified only if it is—

(a) a landlord under a lease of the relevant building or any part of it,

(b) a person who was such a landlord at the qualifying time,

(c) a developer in relation to the relevant building, or

(d) a person associated with a person within any of paragraphs (a) to (c).

(4) An order may—

(a) require the making of payments of a specified amount, or payments of a reasonable amount in respect of the remediation of specified relevant defects (or in respect of specified things done or to be done for the purpose of remedying relevant defects);

(b) require a payment to be made at a specified time, or to be made on demand following the occurrence of a specified event.

(5) In this section—

• “associated”: see section 121;

• “developer”, in relation to a relevant building, means a person who undertook or commissioned the construction or conversion of the building (or part of the building) with a view to granting or disposing of interests in the building or parts of it;

• “interested person”, in relation to a relevant building, means—

  (a)

  the Secretary of State,

  (b)

  the regulator (as defined by section 2),

  (c)

  a local authority (as defined by section 30) for the area in which the relevant building is situated,

  (d)

  a fire and rescue authority (as defined by section 30) for the area in which the relevant building is situated,

  (e)

  a person with a legal or equitable interest in the relevant building or any part of it, or

  (f)

  any other person prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• “partnership” has the meaning given by section 121;

• “relevant building”: see section 117;

• “relevant defect”: see section 120;

• “specified” means specified in the order.

(6) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that this section applies, with or without modifications, in relation to a building that would, but for section 117(3), be a relevant building.