Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Building liability orders Section 130: Building liability orders Effect
This section confers a power on the High Court to grant building liability orders if they consider it just and equitable to do so.
	Subsection (2) provides that a building liability order will extend a relevant liability of a body corporate (A) so that it will also be a liability of another specified body corporate (B) and that A and B can be made joint and severally liable for the relevant liability.
	The effect will be that a person with a claim arising from a relevant liability can sue both A and B and, if the claim is successful, the assets of both A and B can be considered when damages are awarded.
	Subsection (3) defines which liabilities are relevant liabilities for the purposes of building liability orders. The relevant liabilities are liabilities under the Defective Premises Act 1972., section 38 of the Building Act 1984, or liabilities which are incurred as a result of a building safety risk. A building safety risk is a risk to the safety of people in or about a building arising from the spread of fire or structural failure.
	Apart from under the Defective Premises Act 1972, which relates to the provision and refurbishment of dwellings, there is no constraint on the types of buildings a relevant liability can be incurred in relation to and therefore no constraint on the types of buildings for which a building liability order may be requested.
	Building liability orders may be granted in relation to a relevant liability which was incurred prior to this section commencing as long as the limitation period for the relevant liability has not expired.
	Subsection (4) states that B can only have a building liability order applied to it if it has been associated with A at any point between the time when A started carrying out the works which incurred the relevant liability and the building liability order being applied. The definition of "associates" is provided by section 131 of this Act.
	Subsection (5) states that a building liability order can be applied to B even when A has dissolved. A building liability order also continues to apply to B if A dissolves after the order has been made.
	Subsection (6) defines terms used in this section.