{"id":5025556,"date":"2020-04-10T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=5025556"},"modified":"2023-11-07T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:15:02","slug":"what-are-the-health-and-safety-obligations-of-a-buy-to-let-landlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2020\/04\/10\/what-are-the-health-and-safety-obligations-of-a-buy-to-let-landlord\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the health and safety obligations of a buy-to-let landlord?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landlords are required by law to prove their rental property is a safe place for people to live. Richard Ritson from JustBoilers.com outlines what landlords need to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is a landlord’s responsibility to make sure their property meets the required standard and is properly certified. If the property is not adequately documented, then there is the potential for penalisation and financial repercussions.<\/p>\n If a tenant were to become ill or endangered because the upkeep of the property is not adequate, the property owner could face serious consequences.<\/p>\n Below we\u2019ve outlined the certifications buy-to-let landlords<\/a> have to supply to their tenants.<\/p>\n The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 stipulate the responsibilities of landlords to make sure all gas appliances and flues for tenants are safe for use.<\/p>\n To ensure this is completed properly, a landlord must:<\/p>\n New safety measures were introduced in February 2018 to better protect tenants from risk of electric shock and fires from electrical goods. To comply with these safety measures, a landlord must do the below points.<\/p>\n Landlords must comply with their legal duty to keep tenants safe from fire, as laid out in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Below we outline what they must do to comply with the law.<\/p>\n This article was written by Richard Ritson, Head Engineer at JustBoilers.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Read our article<\/a> on the upcoming changes on fire safety for buy-to-let landlords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Landlords are required by law to prove their rental property is a safe place for people to live. Richard Ritson from JustBoilers.com outlines what landlords need to do. It is a landlord’s responsibility to make sure their property meets the required standard and is properly certified. If the property is not adequately documented, then there… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3201,"featured_media":5025562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[16,15,345],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098253,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025556\/revisions\/6098253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gas safety<\/h4>\n
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Electrical safety<\/h4>\n
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Fire safety<\/h4>\n
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