Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Construction products Section 153: Cost contribution orders made by courts Effect
This section creates a power to make regulations to enable the Secretary of State to apply to a court for a costs contribution order to be made against a construction products manufacturer, their authorised representative, an importer or distributor ("economic operator") to require them to contribute to the cost of remediation works.
	The Secretary of State would be able to make such an application where an economic operator has been successfully prosecuted for non-compliance with construction products regulations, where the relevant product has caused or contributed to making dwellings unfit for habitation.
	Regulations made under this power will be subject to the affirmative procedure.
	This section should be read alongside section 155, which creates a power to make regulations relating to assessments undertaken as part of this process.
	This power applies UK wide.