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Private Sector Housing Enforcement Policy 2024

20.0 Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015

20.1 These Regulations require that all rented properties must be fitted with a working smoke alarm on each level of the premises where there is a room used as living accommodation at the start of each Tenancy.

20.2 In addition, where any room contains a fixed combustion compliance and is used as living accommodation must also be fitted with a working carbon monoxide alarm at the start of each tenancy.

20.3 Such alarms must be repaired or replaced once by the landlord once they have been informed that they are faulty.

20.4 Where the Local Authority has reasonable grounds to believe that these requirements have not been met; they must serve a remedial notice on the landlord requiring that they be provided. If the landlord does not comply with the notice, the Local Authority must carry out works in default of that notice to provide or maintain the detectors and may levy a penalty charge.

20.5 The penalty charge acts to reimburse the Local Authority for undertaking those works and also as a punitive penalty for non-compliance.

20.6 Please read in conjunction with Adoption of policy to allow penalty charge notices to be issued under Adoption of policy to allow penalty charge notices to be issued under The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (PDF, 148 KB)(opens new window)

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