A quickie for you fire safety bods, what in practice does the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 have for rented or short term lease properties for Local Authority tenants? In other words, what duty is imposed on the LA to ensure the aforementioned regulations are in place before a property is rented from a private landlord. Many thanks.

mssy Thank for your reply, as I suspected not exactly inundated with responses. I agree, I cannot see why social housing has been excluded from the Act. Are they better than private Landlords...moving on. I accept what you're saying about the practical implications of testing, etc, but really my question is really about the legal duty and possibly the transference of that duty where a LA rents a property from a private tenant. If the CM detector is not in situ will that mean the property is not fit for purpose, or because these are now LA tenants they are exempt anyway? I think is some way I have answered my own question. Assuming the duty cannot be transferred there would only be a moral duty and all that jazz. I might run this past legal for a second opinion.