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Scotland - Home Of The Unworkable Law

molerat
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43443725

Are we going to see little old ladies sent to prison for refusing. Are they going to be breaking down doors and force fitting ?

However admirable the intention a totally unworkable regulation which goes against all retrospective building law conventions.
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  • AvocadosBeforeMortgages
    AvocadosBeforeMortgages Posts: 44 Forumite
    Surely it will be enforced only when someone complains? So relevant for tenants, but Doris the homeowner can't make a complaint against herself, she just needs to go to the hardware shop and buy one.

    The new law should act as a prompt for Doris's offspring to check she has one though.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,784 Forumite
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    edited 18 March 2018 at 10:41AM
    Well done Scotland for putting more pressure on owners to benefit from what has been required for some time by private Scottish tenants: (requirements for council & housing association tenants have been less demanding....)

    The children & other relatives of stupid pig-headed ignorant home-owners will undoubtedly, in general, benefit from this!

    Frequently the local fire service will provide such sensors for free.

    Come on Engerland, catch up (again!):
  • Silvertabby
    Silvertabby Posts: 10,358 Forumite
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    And who will oversee that all homeowners check/change the batteries every month?
  • AdrianC
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    edited 18 March 2018 at 10:48AM
    I fail to see the problem here. Why would people have a big issue with fitting a smoke alarm? They're no more than basic common sense.
    Silvertabby wrote: »
    And who will oversee that all homeowners check/change the batteries every month?
    They don't need changing every month.
    They don't even need checking every month. They constantly check themselves, and you KNOW when they need changing...

    Buy rechargeable batteries, and they don't even cost anything more than trivial money to run.
  • AnotherJoe
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    I was with it until I got to the part which said they should all be interlinked.
    Now that is unworkable.
  • AdrianC
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    "should". Not must.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,784 Forumite
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    AnotherJoe wrote: »
    I was with it until I got to the part which said they should all be interlinked.
    Now that is unworkable.
    Why, pray? (Acknowledging it's only a "should")?

    Alarms of private landlords over 1 storey must be (? err.. used to have to be) mains-interlinked...
  • davidmcn
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    In practice it's just going to be self-enforced by new tenants/purchasers/lenders checking what's installed. Doubt councils are going to be given extra funds to enforce.
  • AnotherJoe
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    Mea Culpa, I misread the "should" as a "must".

    So yes in that case whats all the fuss from the OP about?
  • steampowered
    steampowered Posts: 6,176 Forumite
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    molerat wrote: »
    However admirable the intention a totally unworkable regulation which goes against all retrospective building law conventions.

    Are you suggesting that a law is unworkable simply because not everyone will follow it?

    That is a bit like saying the Theft Act 1968 is unworkable because people still steal things.
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