Commencement of section 156 of the UK Building Safety Act 2022 in Wales
Q1. Are you a ‘responsible person’ for the purposes of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?
Q2a. Do you envisage any difficulties or obstacles for responsible persons in discharging the new duties outlined in the consultation, with effect from October 2023?
Q2b. If you have answered ‘yes’, please explain what you see those difficulties to be and what you consider a reasonable timeframe would be for putting those in place.
Q3. Do you have any views on what is meant by a competent fire risk assessor and the types of qualifications they would require to be deemed competent?
Q4. Do you have any views on when we should commence the requirement that anyone appointed to do a fire risk assessment is a competent person?
Q5. We would like to know your views on the effects that the above proposals would have on the Welsh language, specifically on opportunities for people to use Welsh and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than English.
What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?
Q6. Please also explain how you believe the proposed policy could be formulated or changed so as to have positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language, and no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.
Q7. We have asked a number of specific questions. If you have any related issues which we have not specifically addressed, please use this space to report them: