The requirements under Awaab’s law are only triggered when a landlord becomes aware of a potential hazard after the relevant time, or if, after this time, the social landlord becomes aware of a material change to a potential hazard that they were aware of before that time. However, if the social landlord was aware of a potential hazard before the relevant time and a concern about it is reported to them after that time, this will trigger Awaab’s Law requirements from the point of the report.

The relevant time is the time that the regulations come into force, or, if later, the time that the requirements of the regulations begin to apply in relation to the social home in question.