# Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Section 26: Eligibility for membership

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(1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 25(3)(a).
(2) Regulations must make being eligible for membership of a scheme depend on a person—
(a) being a developer, and
(b) having a connection to a building of a kind described by the regulations that has problematic cladding.
(3) It is for the regulations to describe the kind of connection to a building that a developer must have in order to be eligible for membership of a scheme.
(4) The regulations may provide for a connection of an indirect kind to suffice.
(5) Subsection (2) is not exhaustive of the matters that regulations may specify as criteria for being eligible for membership of a scheme.
(6) In this section—
“developer” means a person carrying on, for business purposes, activities connected with the construction or other development of buildings,
“problematic cladding” means an external wall cladding system in relation to which a single-building assessment report states that—
(a) (directly or indirectly) the cladding system creates or exacerbates a risk to human life, and
(b) work is needed to eliminate or mitigate that risk.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/7/section/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-cladding-remediation-scotland-act-2024/section-26
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