Part 4Higher-risk buildings
Registration and certificates
I182Duty to display building assessment certificate etc
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the regulator has not notified the principal accountable person that the notice has been withdrawn.
- a