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Section 79: Occupied building: duty to apply for building assessment certificate

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

Part 4: Higher-risk buildings

This section applies where the regulator directs the principal accountable person for an occupied higher-risk building to apply to the regulator for a building assessment certificate in relation to the building.

The principal accountable person for the building must make the application within the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the direction is given.

A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence.

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum summary term for either-way offences or a fine (or both);
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);

and (in either case) is liable on summary conviction to a further fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale for each day on which the default continues after the initial conviction.

In this section "building assessment certificate" means a certificate issued under section 81.

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