The appropriate national authority may make regulations about the provision, by landlords of dwellings to each tenant by whom service charges are payable, of information about service charges.
The regulations must, subject to any exceptions provided for in the regulations, require the landlord to provide information about—
The regulations must, subject to any exceptions provided for in the regulations, require the landlord to provide the tenant with a report by a qualified person on information which the landlord is required to provide by virtue of this section.
The regulations may make provision about—
Subsections (2) to (4) do not limit the scope of the power conferred by subsection (1).
Regulations under this section may—
In particular, regulations which make provision about higher-risk buildings (within the meaning of Part 4 of the Building Safety Act 2022) or relevant buildings (as defined by section 117 of that Act) need not contain provision of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) or (3).
Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument which, subject to subsections (8) and (9)—
The Secretary of State may not make a statutory instrument containing the first regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
The Welsh Ministers may not make a statutory instrument containing the first regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this section unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.
In this section—
"the appropriate national authority"—
(a)in relation to England, means the Secretary of State, and
(b)in relation to Wales, means the Welsh Ministers,
"associated service charges", in relation to a tenant by whom a contribution to relevant costs is payable as a service charge, means service charges of other tenants so far as relating to the same costs.