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The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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Amendment of regulation 6: duty of relevant landlord to comply with a remedial notice

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7.  In regulation 6—

(a)at the beginning of paragraph (1), insert “Subject to paragraph (1A),”;

(b)after paragraph (1), insert—

(1A) Where—

(a)a remedial notice has been suspended following representations being made, and

(b)the local housing authority has notified the landlord in accordance with regulation 5(6) that the remedial notice is confirmed,

the landlord must take the remedial action specified in the remedial notice (as amended if amendments have been made) within 21 days beginning with the day on which the landlord is informed that the suspension under regulation 5(5) ceases to have effect.;

(c)in paragraph (2)—

(i)after “paragraph (1)” insert “or (1A)”; and

(ii)omit “, other than legal proceedings,”; and

(d)after paragraph (2), insert—

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), where the landlord is prevented from entering the premises to which the duty under paragraph (1) or (1A) relates by a tenant or occupier of the premises, the landlord will not be considered to have failed to have taken all reasonable steps to comply with the duty under paragraph (1) or (1A) solely by reason of a failure to bring legal proceedings with a view to securing entry to the premises..

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