Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Miscellaneous and general Section 111: Building safety directors of resident management companies Effect
This section enables resident management companies that are Accountable Persons under Part 4 of the building safety regime to appoint a building safety director for the purpose of supporting them in meeting their Part 4 building safety duties if they wish to do so. This section has retrospective effect as it amends existing articles of association.
	Subsection (2) provides that the articles of association of a resident management company which is an Accountable Person have effect as if they allowed:
the appointment of a director of the company, for a building safety purpose;
the fact that any such director can be paid; and
the removal of any such director.
	The details of all of these will be set out in regulations.
	Subsection (3) sets out that the changes to the articles of association mentioned above will affect all new and existing resident management companies notwithstanding anything in the company’s articles of association.
	Subsection (4) defines "building safety purpose" as the purpose of supporting the resident management company in complying with its duties under this Part or under regulations made under this Part. It also sets out that a resident management company will be defined in regulations made by the Secretary of State.
	This section is linked to section 112, which inserts section 30E into the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 to enable this section to function by implying terms into relevant leases so that costs incurred by a residents’ management company in remunerating a director appointed under this section can be recoverable as a service charge under the lease.
	This section is also linked to section 161(4) that sets out that where a "relevant company" (which includes a resident management company) appoints a paid director for a building safety purpose, all unpaid directors of the company will be relieved of their personal criminal liability for breaches of  Part 4 duties.