Building safety
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 came into force on 28 June 2022, with new financial protections for leaseholders in buildings of at least 11 metres or five storeys in height with historical safety defects.
	The effect of the Act is that building owners and landlords who built defective buildings of at least 11 metres or at least five storeys, or are associated with those responsible, pay to remedy historical safety defects for both cladding and non-cladding defects.
	In the Act, there are six amendments to the Building Safety Act to ensure the leaseholder protections function in the way they were originally intended, and additional protections in some specific scenarios.