Regulation 4 Meaning of “required work” etc.

In these Regulations—

• “required work” means, in relation to a significant hazard or emergency hazard affecting a social home, any work—

  1. (a)

     that is necessary in order to—

     1. (i)

        make the home safe, and

     2. (ii)

        ensure, so far as is possible, that the hazard in question does not recur,

  2. (b)

     that the lessor—

     1. (i)

        can lawfully undertake, or

     2. (ii)

        can lawfully undertake if it obtains any necessary consents and in respect of which the lessor has not exhausted all reasonable endeavours to obtain such consents, and

  3. (c)

     that is not work—

     1. (i)

        for which the lessee is liable by virtue of—

        1. (aa)

           the duty of the lessee to use the premises in a tenant-like manner, or

        2. (bb)

           an express covenant of the lessee of substantially the same effect as that duty,

     2. (ii)

        to rebuild or reinstate the dwelling in the case of destruction or damage by fire, storm, flood or other inevitable accident, or

     3. (iii)

        to keep in repair or maintain anything which the lessee is entitled to remove from the dwelling;

• “work” includes any action to make a home safe.