Cladding Assurance Register CAR

Cladding Assurance Register (CAR) was a key element of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill 2023, which was unanimously approved and passed by the Scottish Parliament on 14 May 2024, becoming the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024. It aims to mitigate and ideally eliminate risks to human life presented by the external wall cladding systems, giving Scottish Ministers far reaching powers to identify issues.

The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024: "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to confer on the Scottish Ministers powers to identify external wall cladding systems on residential buildings that create or exacerbate risks to human life and to address those risks; to establish a register to record that a building’s cladding has been assessed and that remediation works have been completed; to enable one or more schemes to be established to require persons in the building industry to contribute towards assessing and remediating dangerous cladding; and for connected purposes." It received Royal Assent on 21st June 2024

The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024 PART 1: THE CLADDING ASSURANCE REGISTER:

"1 The register

• (1) The Scottish Ministers are to maintain a register of buildings (“the cladding assurance register”).
• (2) An entry for a building is to be created in the register once a single-building assessment has been carried out in relation to it.
• (3) A building’s entry in the register—
  • (a) must, when first created, include the following information—
    • (i) when a single-building assessment was carried out in relation to it,
    • (ii) what work (if any) a single-building assessment report identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by the building’s external wall cladding system,
  • (b) must be amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after any additional work assessment is carried out in relation to it, to include the following information—
    • (i) when the additional work assessment was carried out,
    • (ii) what additional work (if any) the additional work assessment report identified as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by the building’s external wall cladding system,
  • (c) must be amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that any work mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii) and any work mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) has been completed, to include the date on which they were so satisfied,
  • (d) may include any other information that the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.
• (4) The Scottish Ministers may amend an entry in the register if they consider any information contained in it to be inaccurate.
• (5) The Scottish Ministers may charge for access to the register."

It also includes and defines item 2 Offence of providing false or misleading information for the register and furthere section include:

• PART 2: POWERS TO ASSESS AND ADDRESS DANGER
• PART 3: OFFENCES UNDER PARTS 1 AND 2
• PART 4: ENGAGEMENT WITH OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS
• PART 5: RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPERS SCHEME

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