Schedule 8: Remediation costs under qualifying leases Paragraph 12: Recovery of service charge amounts from landlords Effect
Paragraph 12 creates a power to make regulations prescribing how service charge amounts that are not recoverable from leaseholders are to be met.
	Sub-paragraph (1) sets out that amounts that are not recoverable from leaseholders are to be met by relevant landlords prescribed by the regulations.
	Sub-paragraph (2) sets out the meaning of "relevant landlord". A "relevant landlord" means the landlord under a lease and any superior landlord. This term includes freeholders, head lessees and any other landlords who hold superior leases over all or part of the building.
	Given that the definition includes the landlord under "a lease", this means that any landlord with a superior lease over any part of the building will be a relevant landlord. In mixed-use buildings it includes landlords who hold superior leases over both residential and commercial parts of a building, including landlords who hold leases over solely commercial premises. The term "relevant landlord" does not include resident management and right to manage companies.