{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/30",
  "legislation_title": "Building Safety Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Meaning of “occupied” higher-risk building etc",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions apply for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) A higher-risk building is “occupied” if there are residents of more than one residential unit in the building.\n(3) A reference to a resident of a higher-risk building is to a resident of a residential unit in such a building.\n(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) amend the definition of a higher-risk building being “occupied”;\n(b) amend the definition of a “resident” of a higher-risk building;\n(c) define, for the purposes of this Part, the meaning of being a “resident” of a residential unit.\n(5) See—\n(a) section 65 for the meaning of “higher-risk building”;\n(b) section 115 for the meaning of “residential unit”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 71 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 170(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 71 in force at 6.4.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(y)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/71",
    "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."
}