Responsible Actors Scheme Regulations Has Been Implemented

Further to our update on 3 February regarding the Building Safety Pledge Contract , the Government has now passed The Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023 that came into force on 4 July 2023.

Background

Since the Grenfell tragedy, the Government has been committed to ensuring that responsible parties are ordered to remedy and rectify life-critical fire safety defects in high-rise residential buildings, with the intent of improving the safety and standard of buildings and ensuring that those who do not comply are penalised appropriately.

The Building Safety Act introduced a raft of measures designed to achieve this aim and protect leaseholders from costly remediation works. The Responsible Actors Scheme ("RAS"), introduced by Sections 126-129 of the Building Safety Act 2022 ("the Act"), is the latest such mechanism to come into force.