Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons

Publication Year

2024

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Withdrawn

Abstract

Sets out the roles and legal duties for the accountable person and the principal accountable person of a high-rise residential building. Gives clarity to who is accountable, what the legal duties are and other additional duties for the principal accountable person and what enforcement action may be taken if there is a breach of duty.

Document History

Last updated: 9 February 2024 - Updated by adding a section on competence requirements, including Demonstrating and assessing competence  and Help with competence requirements. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/safety-in-high-rise-residential-buildings-accountable-persons and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 5 April 2023.

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