Schedule 7: Special Measures Paragraph 16: Special measures order: change in accountable person etc Effect
Paragraph 16 makes provision for the continued operation of a special measures order when the Accountable Persons for a building change during the life of the order. This could be due to an Accountable Person disposing of its interest or part of its interest in the building or transferring its interest to another Accountable Person.
	Paragraph 16(2) provides that the special measures order ceases to apply to the outgoing Accountable Person for a relevant part of the building at the time that and in so far as the Accountable Person stops being responsible for all or any part of the relevant part of the building.
	Following the departure of the outgoing Accountable Person, paragraph 16(3) sets out that the order is applicable to the new, incoming Accountable Person responsible for all or any part of the relevant part of the building.
	Paragraph 16(4) sets out that even though the outgoing Accountable Person ceases to be responsible under the special measures order going forward, they are still liable for any contraventions they may have committed whilst they were subject to the order. For example, they will still be subject to any debts outstanding prior to the incoming Accountable Person becoming responsible.
	Paragraph 16(5) ensures that the order remains binding on subsequent Accountable Persons regardless of existing statutory priorities of interests and registry requirements.
	Paragraph 16(6) makes it clear that the powers of the Tribunal to vary a special measures orders in accordance with paragraph 14 are not affected by this paragraph.