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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electrical-safety-standards-for-private-tenancies-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2024/9780338023667",
  "legislation_title": "The Electrical Safety Standards for Private Tenancies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electrical-safety-standards-for-private-tenancies-regulations-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duties of landlords in relation to electrical installations",
  "text": "(1) A landlord who grants or intends to grant a private tenancy must—\n(a) ensure that the electrical safety standards are met during the period when the dwelling-house is let under the private tenancy;\n(b) ensure every electrical installation in the dwelling-house is inspected and tested at regular intervals by a qualified person; and\n(c) ensure the first inspection and testing is carried out—\n(i) before the tenancy commences in relation to a new private tenancy; or\n(ii) by 1st December 2025 in relation to an existing private tenancy.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) “at regular intervals” means—\n(a) at intervals of no more than 5 years; or\n(b) where the most recent report under paragraph (3)(a) requires such inspection and testing to be at intervals of less than 5 years, at the intervals specified in that report.\n(3) Following the inspection and testing required by paragraph (1)(b) and (c), a landlord must—\n(a) obtain a report from the qualified person conducting the inspection and test, which gives the results of the inspection and test and the date of the next inspection and test;\n(b) supply a copy of that report to each existing tenant of the dwelling-house within 28 days beginning with the day on which the inspection and test is carried out;\n(c) supply a copy of that report to the council within 7 days beginning with the day on which a request is received in writing for it from the council;\n(d) retain a copy of that report until the next inspection and test is due and supply a copy to the qualified person carrying out the next inspection and test; and\n(e) supply a copy of the most recent report to—\n(i) any new tenant before they occupy the dwelling-house; and\n(ii) any prospective tenant within 28 days beginning with the day on which a request is received in writing for it from that prospective tenant.\n(4) Where a report under paragraph (3)(a) indicates that a landlord is or is potentially in breach of the duty under paragraph (1)(a) and the report requires the landlord to undertake further investigative or remedial work, the landlord must ensure that further investigative or remedial work is carried out by a qualified person within—\n(a) 28 days beginning with the day on which the inspection and test is carried out; or\n(b) the period specified in the report if less than 28 days.\n(5) Where paragraph (4) applies, a landlord must—\n(a) obtain written confirmation from a qualified person that the further investigative or remedial work has been carried out and that—\n(i) the electrical safety standards are met; or\n(ii) further investigative or remedial work is required; and\n(b) supply a copy of that written confirmation, together with a copy of the report under paragraph (3)(a) which required the further investigative or remedial work to—\n(i) each existing tenant of the dwelling house; and\n(ii) the council,\nwithin 28 days of completion of the further investigative or remedial work.\n(6) Where further investigative work is carried out in accordance with paragraph (4) and the outcome of that investigative work is that further investigative or remedial work is required, the landlord must repeat the steps in paragraphs (4) and (5) in respect of that further investigative or remedial work.\n(7) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(e)(ii), a person is a prospective tenant in relation to the dwelling-house if that person—\n(a) requests any information about the dwelling-house from the prospective landlord for the purpose of deciding whether to rent the dwelling-house;\n(b) makes a request to view the dwelling-house for the purpose of deciding whether to rent the dwelling-house; or\n(c) makes an offer, whether oral or written, to rent the dwelling-house.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2024/9780338023667/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:05.796601+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."
}