As a holiday home owner, you have certain legal responsibilities to ensure that your holiday property is compliant with all health and safety and other legislation relating to the letting of self-catering accommodation.

In essence, you have a duty of care to customers, which means that a common sense approach is necessary to eliminate potential safety hazards, coupled with a sensible risk assessment to minimise the potential for unfortunate accidents.

Key areas of consideration include:

1. The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety Regulations, 1988);
2. The Electricity at Work regulations, 1989;
3. The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998;
4. Gas Cooking Appliances (Safety) Regulations, 1989;
5. Private Water Supplies Regulations, 2009;
6. Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, 2005.

To help you understand the nature of these responsibilities we have produced a guide that is available to owners via our Owners Information Pack, and the secure Owners’ section of our website.

Every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, but the guide is not necessarily exhaustive, and our guidance notes are intended as a general guide rather than a definitive one.

Our role is to help to facilitate your understanding of these responsibilities and to signpost you to the appropriate sources of information regarding these elements.

We are more than happy to arrange for such items as Fire Safety Risk Assessments, PATS tests, gas appliance safety checks, and so forth, to be conducted on your behalf. Once in place these vital reviews must be undertaken, in most cases, on an annual basis.