Section 61: Overview of Part

Building Safety Act 2022 · 2022 c. 30View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Higher-risk buildings

This Part contains provisions about the management of building safety risks as regards occupied higher-risk buildings.

In this Part—

sections 62 to 64 define "building safety risk" and make related provision;
sections 65 to 70 define "higher-risk building", make related provision, and confer power to modify this Part as it applies in relation to any description of higher-risk building;
sections 71 to 75 contain other key definitions, including—
when a building is "occupied";
the definition of "accountable person" and "principal accountable person";

and provide that the First-tier Tribunal may determine who is an accountable person or the principal accountable person for a higher-risk building;

make provision about the registration of higher-risk buildings and about building assessment certificates;sections 76 to 82
sections 83 to 86 make provision about the assessment and management of building safety risks, including provision requiring a safety case report to be prepared and revised;
sections 87 to 90 contain provisions about the keeping and giving of information and documents to the regulator, other accountable persons, residents and others;
sections 91 to 94 contain provisions about engagement with residents etc, including—
provision requiring a residents' engagement strategy to be prepared and revised;
provision requiring complaints systems to be established and operated;
sections 95 to 97 impose duties on residents and make provision for the enforcement of those duties;
section 98 to 101 contain provisions about the enforcement of this Part;
section 102 and Schedule 7 provide for the appointment of a special measures manager, to undertake duties under this Part in place of an accountable person, and make further provision in connection with that appointment;
sections 103 to 107 contain provisions about appeals;
sections 108 to 111 contain miscellaneous provisions, including provision about cooperation and coordination;
sections 112 to 114 provide for certain terms to be implied into leases, and contain other provisions affecting the relationship between landlord and tenant or affecting commonholds;
section 115 contains definitions applying for the purposes of this Part.

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These source and reuse terms cover the legislation text, not Remedy's commentary.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.