Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Building industry schemes Section 126: Building industry schemes Effect
This section gives the Secretary of State a power to establish through affirmative regulations a scheme or schemes for the building industry.
	A scheme may be established for any purpose connected with securing the safety of persons in or about buildings in relation to risks arising from buildings, or improving the standard of buildings, including by securing those persons in the building industry remedy defects in buildings or contribute to costs associated with remedying defects in buildings.
	Regulations under this section may, among other things, prescribe eligibility for a scheme, the conditions eligible persons must meet to become and remain members of a scheme and may provide for different categories of membership.
	The measures set out in section 58, which covers the Building Safety Levy, and sections 128 and 129, which cover the planning and building control prohibitions, may be applied to persons who are eligible for membership of a scheme but who are not members.