Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Construction products Section 155: Cost contribution orders: assessments Effect
This section creates a power to make regulations relating to assessments undertaken for the purposes of costs contribution orders.
	Following a successful prosecution for non-compliance with construction products regulations, regulations will enable the Secretary of State to appoint persons to undertake an assessment to inform the decision as to whether the conditions have been met, and the terms on which a costs contribution order can be made, or the terms of an application to the court for an order to be made, and the terms of any order sought from the court.
	Regulations made under this power will be subject to the affirmative procedure.
	This section should be read alongside sections 153 and 154, which set out the conditions for making a costs contribution order.
	This power applies UK wide.