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Summary

This publication provides guidance to landlords in the social and private rented sectors understand their responsilbity for making Energy Performance Certificates available when renting a property.

The guidance will help landlords to understand:

• the basic legal requirements relating to EPCs
• the situations for which EPCs will be required
• at which point a dwelling may require an EPC, how to obtain an EPC and how long the EPC can be expected to be valid for
• what an EPC will contain and what the tenant will receive
• the implications for the validity of the EPC if the dwelling's energy effi ciency is improved

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