Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Registration and certificates Section 82: Duty to display building assessment certificate etc Effect
This section places a duty on the Principal Accountable Person to display the building’s most recent Building Assessment Certificate, any relevant compliance notice, and a prescribed notice.
	Subsection (1) places a duty on the Principal Accountable Person to display together several documents in a conspicuous position within the building. Paragraph (a) requires that a notice, in a form and containing information prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State, about the Accountable Person, is displayed. Paragraph (b) requires that the most recent Building Assessment Certificate for the building is displayed. Paragraph (c) requires that any relevant compliance notices issued by the Building Safety Regulator are displayed.
	Subsection (5) defines a "relevant" compliance notice as a compliance notice that has been given to an Accountable Person, where the regulator has provided a copy to the Principal Accountable Person (if the notice was not given to the Principal Accountable Person), and where the regulator has not notified the Principal Accountable Person that the notice has been withdrawn.
	The Building Safety Regulator may place a building in special measures by applying to the First-tier Tribunal for an order appointing a Special Measures Manager. Subsection (2) places a duty on the Principal Accountable Person not to display the Building Assessment Certificate for the building when such an order is in force. The requirements to display a notice about the Accountable Persons still applies.
	Failure by the Principal Accountable Person to comply with the requirements to display in subsection (1) or the requirement to not display a Building Assessment Certificate in special measures in (2)(b), without a reasonable excuse, is an offence. If found liable on summary conviction the Principal Accountable Person can face an unlimited fine or imprisonment up to 12 months, or both; and on conviction on indictment can face a fine, imprisonment for up to 2 years, or both. In relation to an offence committed before paragraph 24(2) of Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020 comes into force, the reference to 12 months is to be read as a reference to 6 months. In either case, the Principal Accountable Person would be liable to pay a daily fine following conviction until the duty is complied with.