The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2008
These Regulations amend the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, which implement Articles 7 (energy performance certificate), and 10 (independent experts) of Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16th December 2002 on the Energy Performance of Buildings (OJ No. L 1 4.1.2003 p.65) (“the Directive”). The amendments concern various provisions related to energy performance certificates and related documents—regulation 2(2) amends regulation 11(4) to extend from twelve months to 3 years the validity of energy performance certificates to be included in a home information pack under Part 5 of the Housing Act 2004, and regulation 5 makes the corresponding consequential amendment to regulation 15(2) of the Home Information Pack (No. 2) Regulations 2007;regulation 2(3) amends regulation 14(2) to allow the disclosure by any person in possession or control of an energy performance certificate or accompanying document or data—by or to an energy assessor for the purpose of assessment of a dwelling,by or to the Energy Saving Trust Limited of the address and energy performance rating only of a dwelling for the purpose of providing information to the occupier on financial support available for improving its energy performance or, on an anonymised basis, for statistical or research purposes, andby or to an approved inspector for the purpose of functions under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984;regulation 2(4) corrects a minor drafting error in regulation 17(1)(e)(iii);regulation 2(5) amends the description in regulation 31(2) of the data that is required to be entered by an energy assessor on any register of energy performance certificates and related documents kept pursuant to that regulation;regulation 2(6) inserts a new regulation 34A that allows the keeper of the register to disclose to any person whether an energy performance certificate is registered for a specified building other than a dwelling and when any such certificate was issued;regulation 2(7) inserts new regulations 35A and 35B that allow the keeper of the register—to disclose to an energy assessor any document or data entered on the register concerning a dwelling for the purpose of assessment of the dwelling concerned or for any other purpose on behalf of its owner or tenant (regulation 35A), andto disclose to the Energy Saving Trust Limited the address of any dwelling in respect of which an energy performance certificate in a performance category specified by that company has been entered on the register, for the purpose of providing information to the occupier on financial support available for improving its energy performance, or for use on an anonymised basis for statistical or research purposes (regulation 35B);regulation 2(8) inserts a new regulation 36A that allows the keeper of the register to disclose any document or data to an approved inspector in connection with functions under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984 in relation to the building concerned; andregulation 2(9) extends the transitional arrangements in regulation 51 for property on the market at commencement for a period ending on 4th January 2009 in relation to non-dwellings.
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- The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2008 from King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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- United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
- Date published
- 9 September 2008
- Last updated
- 12 June 2014
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- King's Printer of Acts of Parliament