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Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Tiered Fire and Structural Safety Duties for Multi-occupied Residential Buildings, AP/PAP Framework, HMO Provisions, Golden Thread, Registration, Safety Cases, Certificates and Enforcement

Published on: 23 September 2025

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Background

In the wake of the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety’ (the Hackitt Report), commissioned by the government in response to this event, highlighted major shortcomings in fire safety arrangements for high-rise dwellings and in the construction materials employed. The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) was subsequently enacted. Numerous elements of BSA 2022 apply in Wales (although in some instances on a different timetable with separate regulations). That said, BSA 2022, Pt 4 (Occupation and Management – Higher-Risk Buildings) does not apply, and the Welsh Government are pursuing a distinct, devolved framework for the regulation of multi-occupied residential buildings, informed by the Hackitt Report and the recommendations of the Welsh Government’s Building Safety Expert Group. This framework is now articulated in the Building Safety (Wales) Bill (the Bill), which develops the existing UK-wide regime. For fire safety, the provisions within the Bill in effect replace the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, SI 2005/1541, (the Fire Safety Order) for regulated buildings (and in many respects mirror it)...

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