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—

    1. a

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

    2. 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

    3. c

      the regulator has not notified the principal accountable person that the notice has been withdrawn.