On 02/04/2021 13:23, Fredxx wrote:
On 02/04/2021 08:15, Robin wrote:
On 02/04/2021 01:05, Fredxx wrote:

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Does the need for a EICR cover lodgers, who are normally there under
a licence rather than a tenancy?

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No. Excluded by para 2 of Schedule 1.Â* Or see the official guidance
from HMG at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electrical-safety-standards-in-the-private-rented-sector-guidance-for-landlords-tenants-and-local-authorities/guide-for-landlords-electrical-safety-standards-in-the-private-rented-sector


The guidance includes their best effort to wriggle round the way they
went ahead with a regulation that mandates "the electrical safety
standards" of the 18th edition despite admitting that they never
intended to require landlords to replace every plastic CU etc.

Interesting, so if you have 4 or more lodgers then it's a HMO, below
that and you don't need an EICR.

Dunno. AFAICS:

a. these regs simply exclude lodgers as defined in Schedule 1

b. it doesn't matter in these regs if it's an HMO or not

c. these regs also abolished the separate requirement for EICRs for HMOs;

BUT

d. resident landlords with 2 lodgers may have an HMO and be required to
certificate their safety and be subject to separate licensing conditions.

I could well be wrong as it seems a daft result. But then these regs
were widely seen as a mess. (As also was the guidance which the
Government issued and withdrew twice).


Robin
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