{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/30",
  "legislation_title": "Building Safety Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Overview of Part",
  "text": "(1) This Part contains provisions about the management of building safety risks as regards occupied higher-risk buildings.\n(2) In this Part—\n(a) sections 62 to 64 define “building safety risk” and make related provision;\n(b) sections 65 to 70 define “higher-risk building”, make related provision, and confer power to modify this Part as it applies in relation to any description of higher-risk building;\n(c) sections 71 to 75 contain other key definitions, including—\n(i) when a building is “occupied”;\n(ii) the definition of “accountable person” and “principal accountable person”;\nand provide that the First-tier Tribunal may determine who is an accountable person or the principal accountable person for a higher-risk building;\n(d) sections 76 to 82 make provision about the registration of higher-risk buildings and about building assessment certificates;\n(e) sections 83 to 86 make provision about the assessment and management of building safety risks, including provision requiring a safety case report to be prepared and revised;\n(f) sections 87 to 90 contain provisions about the keeping and giving of information and documents to the regulator, other accountable persons, residents and others;\n(g) sections 91 to 94 contain provisions about engagement with residents etc, including—\n(i) provision requiring a residents’ engagement strategy to be prepared and revised;\n(ii) provision requiring complaints systems to be established and operated;\n(h) sections 95 to 97 impose duties on residents and make provision for the enforcement of those duties;\n(i) section 98 to 101 contain provisions about the enforcement of this Part;\n(j) section 102 and Schedule 7 provide for the appointment of a special measures manager, to undertake duties under this Part in place of an accountable person, and make further provision in connection with that appointment;\n(k) sections 103 to 107 contain provisions about appeals;\n(l) sections 108 to 111 contain miscellaneous provisions, including provision about cooperation and coordination;\n(m) sections 112 to 114 provide for certain terms to be implied into leases, and contain other provisions affecting the relationship between landlord and tenant or affecting commonholds;\n(n) section 115 contains definitions applying for the purposes of this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 170(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:43.272944+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}