{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazards-in-social-housing-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273083",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazards-in-social-housing-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“associated investigation” means, in relation to a relevant investigation, another relevant investigation into the same issue of concern;\n“cladding work” means—\n(a) the installation of a cladding system that forms the outer wall of an external wall system, or\n(b) the removal or replacement of any part of such a cladding system;\n“competent investigator” means a person that, in the reasonable opinion of the lessor, has the skills and experience necessary to determine whether a social home is affected by a significant hazard or emergency hazard;\n“emergency hazard” has the meaning given in regulation 3;\n“emergency investigation” means an investigation under regulation 5(4)(a)(i) (emergency action: investigation) and includes any investigation that began but was not completed under regulation 6 (standard investigation) or 7 (renewed investigation) because regulation 5 (emergency action) began to apply;\n“further investigation” means an investigation under regulation 8;\n“issue of concern” means—\n(a) a relevant matter, or\n(b) a material change relating to a relevant matter of which a lessor is already aware;\n“make safe” means, in relation to a social home affected by a significant hazard or emergency hazard, to remove the hazard in question, except in regulation 3;\n“relevant investigation” means—\n(a) an emergency investigation,\n(b) a standard investigation,\n(c) a renewed investigation, or\n(d) a further investigation;\n“relevant matter” means a matter or circumstance that is or may be a significant hazard or emergency hazard affecting a social home;\n“relevant safety work” means any required work necessary to make a social home safe that is not cladding work;\n“renewed investigation” means an investigation under regulation 7;\n“required work” has the meaning given in regulation 4;\n“significant hazard” has the meaning given in regulation 3;\n“social home” means a dwelling let under a lease to which section 10A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (remedying of hazards occurring in dwellings let on relevant social housing leases) applies;\n“standard investigation” means an investigation under regulation 6;\n“work” has the meaning given in regulation 4;\n“working day” means any day other than—\n(a) a Saturday or Sunday,\n(b) Christmas Day or Good Friday, or\n(c) a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80. Schedule 1 to the Act specifies the days that are bank holidays in England and Wales. Section 1(2) and (3) makes provision allowing His Majesty to, by proclamation, appoint different or additional bank holidays."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273083/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:58.608394+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."
}