Amendment to the Renting Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022

2.—(1) The Renting Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 6 (electrical safety)—

(a)in paragraph (3), in the words before paragraph (a), for “7 days”, substitute “14 days”;

(b)in paragraph (4), for “7 days”, substitute “14 days”;

(c)in paragraph (5), for “7 days”, substitute “14 days”;

(d)in paragraph (8), in the definition of “electrical safety standards”, for “BS 7671:2018+A1:2020”, substitute “BS 7671:2018+A2:2022(2)”.

(3) In regulation 7 (application to converted contracts), in paragraph (5), in the substituted paragraph (4), for “7 days”, substitute “14 days”.

(2)

BS 7671:2018 (ISBN-13: 978-1-78561-170-4) published in July 2018, as corrected by a corrigendum dated December 2018; amended by Amendment 1:2020 issued on 1st February 2020 (ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-193-4); corrected by a corrigendum to BS 7671:2018+A1:2020 dated May 2020; and amended by Amendment 2 to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022. Copies can be obtained from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Michael Faraday House, Six Hill Way, Stevenage, SG1 2AY.