Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010

The Secretary is to maintain, or cause to be maintained, a register, to be known as the Building Energy Efficiency Register, in which the Secretary includes particulars of building energy efficiency certificates.

The Register may include information about the following:

current building energy efficiency certificates and those that are no longer current;

current exemptions under section 17 and those that are no longer current;

variations and revocations of such exemptions.

The Secretary must delete, or cause to be deleted, the particulars of a building energy efficiency certificate from the Register if the Secretary is notified in writing by an auditing authority that:

in the case of a building energy efficiency certificate for a building:

the energy efficiency rating specified in the certificate for the building is not that which, applying the assessment methods and standards determined under section 21, is appropriate for the building; or

the assessment of the energy efficiency of the lighting for the building that might reasonably be expected to remain if the building is sold, let or sublet is not that which, applying the assessment methods and standards determined under section 21, is appropriate for the building; or

in the case of a building energy efficiency certificate for an area of a building:

the energy efficiency rating specified in the certificate for the building in which the area is located is not that which, applying the assessment methods and standards determined under section 21, is appropriate for the building; or

the assessment of the energy efficiency of the lighting for the area that might reasonably be expected to remain if the area is let or sublet is not that which, applying the assessment methods and standards determined under section 21, is appropriate for the area.

If particulars of a building energy efficiency certificate for a building are deleted from the Register, the Secretary may notify any person who the Secretary reasonably believes is currently the owner of the building, or a lessee or sublessee of the building or an area of the building, of that fact.

If particulars of a building energy efficiency certificate for an area of a building are deleted from the Register, the Secretary may notify any person who the Secretary reasonably believes is currently the lessee or sublessee of the area of that fact.

The Register must be maintained by electronic means and be made available for inspection on the internet.

The Register is not a legislative instrument.