Part 5: Housing, Estate Agents and Rentcharges: Other Changes Electrical safety standards Section 122: Electrical safety standards for properties let by private landlords
Section 122 allows the Secretary of State, by regulations, to impose duties on a private landlord to ensure that electrical safety standards are met in a property under their ownership, while a tenancy is in place in that property. The regulations may specify obligations that may be required of the landlord with regards to the frequency of checks and the expertise expected of any persons who undertake such checks.