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Building Safety Act 2022 landlord’s certificates in England: triggers, deadlines, prescribed form and evidence, service, copies to other landlords, and former landlord certificates

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Practice notes

How to serve a landlord’s certificate (and former landlord’s certificate)

This ‘how to’ guide looks at serving a landlord’s certificate (and a former landlord’s certificate) under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022), covering service deadlines together with the required form, content and acceptable methods of service.

A landlord’s certificate supplies the leaseholder with details of the landlord’s net worth and the degree to which the landlord was responsible for identified fire safety defects.

This allows the leaseholder to determine whether the landlord is barred from recovering the cost of remedying the defect through the service charge by virtue of:

BSA 2022, Schedule 8, paragraph 2 (the para 2 responsibility condition)—ie the landlord was responsible for the defect or was associated with the person responsible—see Practice Note: Building Safety Act 2022—landlord and tenant issues—Circumstances where no service charge is payable for remediation; or
BSA 2022, Sch 8, paragraph 3 (the para 3 contribution condition)—ie at the qualifying time (14 February 2022 — see Practice Note: Building Safety Act 2022—landlord and tenant issues—Remediation of historic defects—definitions) the landlord group’s net worth exceeded N x £2,000,000—see Practice Note: Building Safety Act 2022—landlord and tenant issues—Circumstances where no service charge is payable for remediation.

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