{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-wales-act-2026/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-wales-act-2026/schedule-4/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/5",
  "legislation_title": "Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Existing fire risk assessments for regulated buildings",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) a person is the principal accountable person for an occupied regulated building,\n(b) immediately before section 29 came into force, the person was the responsible person for the purposes of the Fire Safety Order in relation to premises that include all of the relevant parts of the building, and\n(c) during the 6 months ending with the day on which that section came into force, the person had made or reviewed a risk assessment under article 9 of the Fire Safety Order in relation to the premises (“the existing risk assessment”).\n(2) The existing risk assessment is to be treated for the purposes of this Act as a fire risk assessment made under section 29 in relation to the relevant parts of the building (and as being the current fire risk assessment for the building).\n(3) Section 31(1) does not apply, but the principal accountable person must ensure that a fire risk assessment for the building is made under section 29 no later than 12 months after the day on which the existing risk assessment was made or reviewed.\n(4) In this paragraph, references to the relevant parts of a building have the meaning given by section 29(2).\n(5) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend this paragraph to vary the period for making a fire risk assessment for a regulated building.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 138(2)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/5",
      "affecting_title": "Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "asc/2026/5",
      "affecting_title": "Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026"
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    {
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      "affecting": "asc/2026/5",
      "affecting_title": "Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/5/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:38.263160+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."
}