no valid Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) safety
certificate, or
A
bill
to
Require an electrical safety certificate to be provided to a prospective purchaser of domestic premises in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes.
B e it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Subject to
section 2
this section
applies where a domestic property is to be
sold, and
no valid Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) safety
certificate, or
in the case of a property built or totally rewired within five years or
less before it is
put on the market, no valid Electrical Installation
Certificate (EIC),
is available for the property.
Before putting the property on the market, the relevant person must ensure
that a valid
EICR or a valid EIC is available for the property.
Before marketing the property, any person selling the property on behalf of
the relevant
person must be satisfied that a valid EICR or EIC is available for
the property.
The relevant person or any person selling the property on behalf of the
relevant person
must make available a copy of the EICR or the EIC to any
prospective purchaser of the
property.
Section 1 does not apply where the relevant person can demonstrate that—
the property is being sold for demolition, or
the property being sold will be completely rewired within six months
of sale.
The exemption in
subsection (1)
(b)
applies only if the person
undertaking the
rewiring has expressed an intention to obtain a Building Regulation
Compliance Certificate within 30 days of the completion of the rewiring.
In this Act—
“
relevant person” is the
owner of the property or, if the owner is
deceased, any person acting as executor of his or
her estate;
“
valid Electrical
Installation Condition Report” is a report on the condition
and age of the whole
electrical installation, carried out within the
previous five years and completed and issued
by a skilled person,
competent in such work according to BS 7671 (IET Wiring
Regulations);
“
Electrical Installation Certificate” is a
certificate issued by a qualified
person stating that a new installation (rewire) or new
circuits in an
existing installation are in accordance with BS 7671, current at the time
of
the installation work.
The Secretary of State may make regulations in connection with the
implementation of this
Act.
A statutory instrument containing regulations under this Act is subject to
annulment in
pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Regulations made under this Act and applying to Wales are, to that extent,
subject to
annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru.
This Act extends to England and Wales only.
This Act comes into force on the day that it is passed.
This Act may be cited as the Domestic Premises (Electrical Safety Certificate)
Act
2022.
A
bill
to
Require an electrical safety certificate to be provided to a prospective purchaser of domestic premises in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes.
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