Building Safety Act resources

Primary Legislation

• The Building Safety Act 2022 (2022 c. 30)
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Part 2 The Regulator and its functions
  • Part 3 Building Act 1984
  • Part 4 Higher-risk buildings
  • Part 5 Other provision about safety, standards etc
  • Part 6 General

Statutory Instruments

• The Building Safety (Registration of Higher-Risk Buildings and Review of Decisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (2023 No. 315)
• The Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023 (2023 No. 275)
• The Higher-Risk Buildings (Key Building Information etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (2023 No. 396)
• The Higher-Risk Buildings (Management of Safety Risks etc) (England) Regulations 2023 (2023 No. 907)
• The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 (2023 No. 909)
• The Higher-Risk Buildings (Keeping and Provision of Information etc.) (England) Regulations 2024 (2024 No. 41)

Guidance

• Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread, 29th February 2024
• Submitting mandatory occurrence notices and reports, 31st January 2024 updated 4th March 2024
• Managing building control approval applications for higher-risk buildings, 2nd October 2023 updated 28th November 2023
• Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime, 19th June 2023 updated 19th October 2023
• The Building Safety Act, 25th July 2022
• The Building Safety Act: secondary legislation, 25th July 2022
• Fire safety: Approved Document B, 7th December 2010 updated 1st December 2022

Consultations

• Building Safety Consultations
• Government response to residents voice, golden thread information and the duties on the accountable persons to provide information, 18th October 2023

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Related standards

• PAS 8671:2022 Built environment – Framework for competence of individual Principal Designers – Specification (BLUHC and BSi)

Other resources

• Building Safety Regulator (by the Health & Safety Executive)
• Building Safety Alliance
• Building Safety Hub (by The Property Institute)
• Building Safety (by the National Housing Federation)
• Find a high-rise residential building (by the Health & Safety Executive) – shows what the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.

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