The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

Energy performance certificates E+W

11.—(1) An energy performance certificate must—

(a) express the asset rating of the building in a way approved by the Secretary of State under regulation [F1 24 of the Building Regulations 2010];

(b) include a reference value such as a current legal standard or benchmark;

(c) be issued by an energy assessor who is accredited to produce energy performance certificates for that category of building; and

(d) include the following information—

(i) the reference number under which the certificate has been registered in accordance with regulation 31;

(ii) the address of the building;

(iii) an estimate of the total useful floor area of the building;

(iv) the name of the energy assessor who issued it;

(v) the name and address of the energy assessor’s employer, or, if he is self-employed, the name under which he trades and his address;

(vi) the date on which it was issued; and

(vii) the name of the approved accreditation scheme of which the energy assessor is a member.

(2) A certificate which complies with regulation [F2 29 of the Building Regulations 2010] is also an energy performance certificate.

(3) [F3 An] energy performance certificate is only valid for the purposes of this Part if—

(a) it was issued no more than 10 years before the date on which it is made available; and

(b) no other energy performance certificate for the building has since been obtained by or provided to the relevant person.

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(6) An energy performance certificate must not contain any information or data [F5 (except for the address of the building)] from which a living individual (other than the energy assessor or his employer) can be identified.

(7) Certification for apartments or units designed or altered for separate use in blocks may be based—

(a) except in the case of a dwelling, on a common certification of the whole building for blocks with a common heating system; or

(b) on the assessment of another representative apartment or unit in the same block.

(8) Where—

(a) a block with a common heating system is divided into parts designed or altered for separate use; and

(b) one or more, but not all, of the parts are dwellings,

certification for those parts which are not dwellings may be based on a common certification of all the parts which are not dwellings.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 11(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Building Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2214), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 2(c)(i) (with reg. 9)

F2 Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Building Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2214), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 2(c)(ii) (with reg. 9)

F3 Word in reg. 11(3) substituted (21.5.2010) by The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1456), regs. 1(3), 2(6)(a)

F4 Reg. 11(4)(5) omitted (21.5.2010) by virtue of The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1456), regs. 1(3), 2(6)(b)

F5 Words in reg. 11(6) inserted (2.7.2007) by The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1669), regs. 1(3), 3(4)(c)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 11 in force at 19.4.2007, see reg. 1(4), Sch. 1