Building Safety Act 2022

82 Duty to display building assessment certificate etc E+W

(1) The principal accountable person for an occupied higher-risk building must ensure that the following are displayed together, in a conspicuous position in the building—

(a) a notice in the prescribed form containing prescribed information about accountable persons for the building;

(b) the most recent building assessment certificate relating to the building;

(c) any relevant compliance notice (see subsection (5)).

(2) Where a special measures order is in force in relation to an occupied higher-risk building—

(a) subsection (1) has effect as if paragraph (b) were omitted, and

(b) the principal accountable person for the building must ensure that no building assessment certificate relating to the building is displayed in the building.

(3) A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) or (2)(b) commits an offence.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum summary term for either-way offences or a fine (or both);

(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);

and (in either case) is liable on summary conviction to a further fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale for each day on which the default continues after the initial conviction.

(5) In this section—

• “building assessment certificate” has the same meaning as in section 81;

• “relevant compliance notice”: a compliance notice is “relevant” if—

  (a)

  it has been given to an accountable person for the building,

  (b)

  if it was not given to the principal accountable person for the building, the regulator has given a copy of it to the principal accountable person, and

  (c)

  the regulator has not notified the principal accountable person that the notice has been withdrawn.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 82 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 170(2)(a)

I2 S. 82 in force at 16.1.2024 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2024/40, reg. 2(d)