Important explanatory notes for the #BuildingSafetyBill Amendments tabled by Earl of Lytton for anyone following the debate today. If any of the other Lords have issued explanatory notes for their amendments please post in the thread. lnkd.in/dUFXghUY
201 - This new amendment provides for the Crown to take on the liabilities of the freeholder if a building with building safety defects escheats to the Crown (plugs @luhc gap)
202 - This new amendment prevents trustees in bankruptcy or liquidators from disclaiming the lease of a building with building safety defects on the basis that it is onerous property.
229 - This new amendment requires a landlord that has received an offer of a grant to cover remediation costs, to accept it within two months of the initial offer.
234 - This new amendment makes provision for a new Building Safety Cost Panel to make a Building Safety Cost Order requiring specified corporate bodies to pay remediation costs on the application of an interested person (including leaseholders).
235 - ...provides for a new BSC Panel to determine on behalf of the SoS the reasonable costs of remediation works, whether the costs arise from a failure to comply with building regulations in force at the time of construction, and the amount a person should pay towards them.
236 - See screen shot below. 
237 - This new clause requires the Secretary of State to impose a new building safety cost levy on all or part of the construction industry to cover the costs of remediating building safety defects in cases where the Building Safety Cost Panel so directs.
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