Duties of landlords in relation to electrical installations
- Ensure electrical safety and regular inspections of your rental properties Landlord
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2024
United Kingdom
The Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
At a glance
What's here
3 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Landlord 2
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
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Landlords also bound by 216 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 2016 74 duties
- Housing Act 1985 1985 53 duties
- Housing Act 1996 1996 30 duties
- The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 2003 27 duties
- The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2004 2004 26 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Duty of council to serve a remedial notice
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Council must serve remedial notice on landlord when electrical safety duties breached Local authority
Duty of landlord to comply with a remedial notice
- Comply with electrical safety remedial notice within deadline Landlord
Browse 10 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation and commencement
Interpretation
Power of council to arrange remedial action
Appeals relating to remedial action by council
Recovery of remedial costs
Appeal against recovery of remedial costs
Enforcement of remedial costs
Power of council to arrange urgent remedial action
Offences of non-compliance with duties by landlords
Consequential amendment for registration of charges
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