Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Registration and certificates Section 81: Building assessment certificates Effect
Once the Principal Accountable Person has applied for a Building Assessment Certificate, pursuant to a direction and as required by section 79, subsection (2) of this section requires the Building Safety Regulator to assess whether the relevant duties are being complied with. This subsection also enables the Building Safety Regulator to inspect the building in connection with that assessment.
	The Building Safety Regulator must issue a Building Assessment Certificate if it is satisfied that, at the time of assessment, the Accountable Persons for the building are complying with the relevant statutory obligations. If the Building Safety Regulator is not so satisfied, it must refuse to issue the Building Assessment Certificate, unless subsection (4) applies; if so, it must notify the Principal Accountable Person. Subsection (3) details these duties on the regulator.
	Subsection (4) makes provision for the regulator to issue a notice to the Principal Accountable Person if it finds that a relevant duty is not being complied with on assessment, but the regulator considers that it can be remedied promptly. This allows for the Building Safety Regulator to issue a Building Assessment Certificate if, notwithstanding a breach of relevant compliance, the contravention is rectified promptly according to the terms of the regulator’s notice.
	The obligations on the Principal Accountable Person and Accountable Persons are detailed in subsection (5) and include duties to: assess building safety risks under section 83; manage building safety risks under section 84; produce a Safety Case Report under section 85; comply with the Mandatory Occurrence Reporting System under section 87(4); provide information to the regulator, residents and other persons under section 88; and produce a Residents’ Engagement Strategy under section 91.
	Subsection (6) gives a power to the Secretary of State to set out, in regulations, the matters pertaining to the notices in this section and the Building Assessment Certificate, including form and content, and the way in which they are to be given, and the period in relation to which a certificate must be given.