Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Construction products Section 153: Cost contribution orders made by courts Background
This is a new provision.
	The existing regulatory framework for construction products, which is derived from the EU Construction Products Regulation 2011, sets out the requirements that economic operators (construction products manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors) must fulfil when making construction products available on the UK market. Schedule 11 of this Act takes powers to strengthen and extend this regulatory framework.
	Sections 153 and 154 create a power to make regulations to enable the Secretary of State to require economic operators to pay for, or contribute towards, the cost of remediation works where they have been successfully prosecuted for breach of construction product regulations and use of the relevant products has caused or contributed to making dwellings unfit for habitation. Section 155 creates a power to make regulations relating to assessments undertaken as part of this process.