PART 6E+WRegister of certificates, recommendation reports and advisory reports

Registration of certificates etcE+W

31.—(1) The Secretary of State shall maintain one or more registers [F1data from which the following documents may be produced]—

(a)energy performance certificates and recommendation reports;

(b)display energy certificates; F2...

(c)advisory reports; [F3and

(d)inspection reports.]

[F4(2) An energy assessor who issues any of the documents referred to in [F5paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c)] must ensure that F6... the data which, in accordance with the methodology of calculation of the energy performance of buildings approved by the Secretary of State under regulation [F724 of the Building Regulations 2010], was used to calculate any asset rating or operational rating, and to produce the document, is entered onto the relevant register before the assessor gives the document to the person who requested that it be issued.]

[F8(2A) An energy assessor who issues an inspection report must ensure that [F9the data required by paragraph (2) to be entered in relation to the report] is entered onto the relevant register before the assessor gives the document to the relevant person.]

(3) Each [F10set of data entered onto the register from which a particular document may be produced]—

(a)shall be registered under a unique reference number; and

(b)shall not be altered once registered.

(4) Any F11... data entered onto the register must be kept on the register for a period of at least 20 years beginning on the date on which it is entered onto the register.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 31 in force at 19.4.2007, see reg. 1(4), Sch. 1