Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Registration and certificates Section 82: Duty to display building assessment certificate etc Background
This is a new provision.
	The Independent Review identified that residents in higher-risk buildings need assurance in terms of the fire and structural safety of their buildings. Provisions relating to a Building Assessment Certificate help to ensure statutory obligations under the new regime have been met, by confirming that at the time of assessment, the regulator was satisfied that the Accountable Persons were complying with all the relevant statutory obligations.
	The duty to display the Building Assessment Certificate ensures that residents are informed about the Building Safety Regulator’s most recent assessment of their building, and are assured that at the time of assessment, the regulator was satisfied that all relevant statutory duties were being complied with.
	The duty to display a notice containing the name and contact details of the Accountable Persons ensures residents know who is responsible for oversight and managing the building safety risks for their building, and how to contact them to raise any concerns.
	The duty to display a relevant compliance notice ensures that residents are informed about any subsisting concerns of the Building Safety Regulator about the building.
Example
This section requires the Principal Accountable Person to display several documents in a conspicuous position within the building, primarily so that they can be viewed by residents.
Once the Building Safety Regulator has issued the Building Assessment Certificate, the Principal Accountable Person must display it in a conspicuous position within the building.
Alongside the Building Assessment Certificate, the Principal Accountable Person will need to display a notice containing prescribed information about the Accountable Persons. The information to be contained in the notice and the form it must take will be specified in regulations. It is intended that it will specify the name(s) and contact details of the Accountable Person. This will provide transparency to residents and owners of residential units in the building, so that they know who is responsible for managing the building safety risks for their building, and how to contact them to raise any concerns.
Finally, the Principal Accountable Person must display any relevant compliance notices issued by the Building Safety Regulator. A "relevant compliance notice" is defined in this section as a compliance notice that has been given to an Accountable Person, one which the regulator has provided a copy of to the Principal Accountable Person, and a compliance notice where the regulator has not informed the Principal Accountable Person that it is withdrawn. If the compliance notice is issued to an Accountable Person who is not the Principal Accountable Person, the regulator will issue a copy of the notice to the Principal Accountable Person, who will have a duty to display it in the building.
The Building Safety Regulator may place a building in special measures by applying to the First-tier Tribunal for the appointment of a Special Measures Manager. The Tribunal may issue a Special Measures Order, as detailed in Schedule 7. This section ensures that, while a Special Measures Order is in place, the building’s Building Assessment Certificate is not displayed, thereby signalling clearly that the Special Measures Order prevails over any previous assessment of the building by the regulator. Similarly, the Special Measures Order causes any previous compliance notices to cease to have effect, save for the liability prior to the order being made, as detailed in Schedule 7. Any withdrawn compliance notices would no longer be displayed.
The Building Safety Regulator will undertake building re-assessments periodically. When a re-assessment is undertaken, the regulator will issue a new certificate if it is satisfied that all relevant duties were being complied with. The Principal Accountable Person must display the most recent Building Assessment Certificate in lieu of the old one, so that any previous certificates issued will be taken down, having been superseded by the most recent certificate