Full Description
The Building Safety Act 2022 and ancillary regulations have caused problems and confusion for conveyancers and other property professionals from the outset.
This new edition of the popular guide, written by the leading set Tanfield Chambers, will guide you on the latest legislation and focus on the key issues that you need to be aware of. It also includes new case law, illustrative case studies and untangles complicated law so you can advise your clients with confidence.
Covering all aspects of the act, it offers a particular focus on the implications for house purchasers, leaseholders and managing agents, landlords and tenants or property developers, and those advising them - taking a practical, straightforward approach to explaining the complex issues arising from the act.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Overview of Part 3
3. Building safety risks
4. Higher-risk buildings
5. Who is an accountable person?
6. Duties of accountable persons
7. Duties of residents
8. Enforcement
9. Part V and the Schedule 8 exceptions
10. The landlord's certificate
11. The tenant deed of certificate
12. Amendments to the LTA 1985
13. Service charges in respect of remediation works (s.133)
14. Remediation orders and remediation contribution orders
15. Building liability orders and information orders
16. Architects
17. Construction product claims
18. Liability of associated persons and personal criminal
liability
19. Transactional issues for residential conveyancers:
acting for the seller
20. Transactional issues for residential conveyancers:
acting for the buyer
21. Courts and tribunals
22. The Act in Wales.
