{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-126C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-126C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/126C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "126C",
  "heading": "Duties of registered provider in relation to health and safety lead",
  "text": "(1) A registered provider must—\n(a) ensure that the health and safety lead—\n(i) has sufficient authority (including, in particular, authority to obtain information) within the provider’s organisation, and\n(ii) can devote sufficient time to the functions of the health and safety lead,\nto perform the role of health and safety lead effectively;\n(b) provide the health and safety lead with the resources needed to carry out those functions.\n(2) A registered provider must, in accordance with requirements published by the regulator—\n(a) notify the regulator of the name and contact details of the health and safety lead, and\n(b) publish that information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 126A-126D and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2024) by Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (c. 36), ss. 10(2), 46(3); S.I. 2024/437, reg. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/126C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}