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Building Safety Act 2022

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No service charge payable if landlord meets contribution condition

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3(1)No service charge is payable under a qualifying lease in respect of a relevant measure relating to any relevant defect if the landlord under the lease at the qualifying time (“the relevant landlord”) met the contribution condition.

(2)The contribution condition is that the landlord group’s net worth at the qualifying time was more than N x £2,000,000,

where N is the number of relevant buildings within sub-paragraph (3).

(3)A relevant building is within this sub-paragraph if a member of the landlord group was, at the qualifying time, a landlord under a lease of the relevant building or any part of it.

(4)For the purposes of this paragraph

(a)the landlord group” means the relevant landlord and any person associated with the relevant landlord;

(b)the net worth of the landlord group at the qualifying time is to be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(5)The Secretary of State may by regulations amend the amount for the time being specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(6)This paragraph does not apply if, at the qualifying time, the relevant landlord was—

(a)a private registered provider of social housing (as to which see section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008),

(b)a local authority (as defined by section 30), or

(c)a prescribed person.

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