Building Safety Act 2022

132 Order for information in connection with building liability order

(1) A person of a prescribed description may apply to the High Court for an information order.

(2) An “information order” is an order requiring a specified body corporate to give, by a specified time, specified information or documents relating to persons who are, or have at any time in a specified period been, associated with the body corporate.

(3) An information order may be made only if it appears to the court—

(a) that the body corporate is subject to a relevant liability (within the meaning of section 130), and

(b) that it is appropriate to require the information or documents to be provided for the purpose of enabling the applicant (or the applicant and others) to make, or consider whether to make, an application for a building liability order.

(4) In this section—

• “associate”: section 131 applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 130;

• “building liability order”: see section 130;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• “specified” means specified in the information order.