Air conditioning energy assessments TM44 certificate
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Please read very carefully!
If you control the operation of an air-conditioning system affected by the Regulations, it is your responsibility to ensure an inspection has been done in accordance with the requirements and timetable of the Regulations and keep the most recent inspection report made by an energy assessor
The person who controls the operation of the system is the person who controls the technical functioning of the system, not someone who can just alter the temperature.
The owner of the system will usually control the operation of the system even where day to day operation is contracted out to another. Where a tenant takes total responsibility for a building and its services (e.g. full repairing and insuring lease), then the tenant will control the system.
Where the operation and management of the system is carried out on a day-to-day management basis, or a servicing company provides routine servicing and maintenance, the contract may specify the management or servicing company as the controller of the system with responsibility for ensuring that inspections are carried out.
Even in such cases, however, the landlord or tenant retains a parallel duty to ensure the air conditioning inspection has been done.
Where air-conditioning systems are installed locally by a tenant, the responsibility will lay with the tenant as they own the system.