Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Registration and certificates Section 78: Registration of higher-risk buildings Background
This is a new provision.
	The Independent Review identified that there should be clear dutyholders during occupation who will have statutory obligations to maintain the fire and structural safety of the building. The registration system ensures that dutyholders identify themselves to the Building Safety Regulator, who is then able to use this information to operationalise compliance and enforcement activity.
	An important recommendation from the Independent Review was that the name and UK contact information of the dutyholder(s) in occupation should be notified to the Building Safety Regulator and to residents and any other landlords of dwellings in the building. Notification of this information to the Building Safety Regulator will likely be accomplished through secondary legislation made under this section. The regulator will also be responsible for keeping the register up to date should any information provided at registration subsequently change.
Example
Before new buildings become occupied, the Principal Accountable Person will need to come forward and register their details and that of the higher-risk building with the Building Safety Regulator. For existing occupied buildings, the Principal Accountable Person will be required to register their building following a transitional period once the new regulatory regime comes into force.
Once the applicant has met the requirements of registration, the Building Safety Regulator will add them to the building register. The Building Safety Regulator will publish the register.
Information required in the registration process will be set out in regulations and will include core details of the building, details of the Accountable Persons, Principal Accountable Person, and an address in England or Wales at which notices can be served on the Principal Accountable Person/Accountable Persons. The process is likely to be digitalised.
Information obtained from registration will allow the regulator to produce the national register of higher-risk buildings, and will also ensure the Accountable Persons are identified to the regulator. This information will also be used to support the regulator in prioritising its notifications to the Principal Accountable Person requiring an application for a Building Assessment Certificate, as set out in section 79.