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Just this week, the government has announced a new law that all social homes are required to have smoke alarms fitted and carbon monoxide alarms be fitted in all private rented properties with fixed appliances such as boilers or fires.
Landlords or agents acting on the behalf of the landlords are also extended to test the alarms on the first day of tenancy. They are required to repair or replace smoke alarms and smoke carbon monoxide alarms once they are found faulty.
The cost of the new requirements will fall to the property owners.
According to the Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing, Eddie Hughes MP, it is essentially right for the people to feel safe in their own homes. Because each year 20 people are killed in accidental carbon monoxide poisoning and many more through house fires.
He believes that the new rules being proposed will make sure even more homes are fitted with life-saving alarms.
The reforms follow a three month regulation and the changes will be brought forward through the England’s Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations 2015 and the statutory guidance supporting Part J of the Building Regulations.
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