Updating post from Reddit.
As above
isnt it a legal requirement?
Yes legal requirement, gas is yearly and electrics is for 5 years I believe then you have EPC which lasts 10 years. Gas and electric is for tenants safety mainly.
It is the landlords responsibility to sort it out not the tenants nor should the tenant be charged.
What a very strange question from the op. Clearly doesn't understand a thing about being a good landlord
Thats cause hes got ‘tenant’ in his profile.
It’s a legal requirement from you
To ensure the gas and electric they have is certified as safe to use and it won’t blow them up.
Because its the law.
Probably to check they are safe ad aren’t going to die from carbon monoxide poisoning
You must legally provide them to your tenants at AST sign up and at renwal.
Understood thanks
Why wouldn't they?
That's a very worrying question you are asking.
If you’re a landlord you are the type that gives the rest of us a bad name.
Not a landlord
Then these checks and certs are for your own safety.
It's the law because slumlorda killed tenants!
Are you asking as a tenant or a landlord?
If you are a landlord you should already know the answer.
If you are a tenant: it’s part of the government’s way of ensuring the landlord is making sure two things in the house that could kill you if they aren’t kept upto a good standard, are indeed kept upto a safe standard.
You have to provide it at the start of the tenancy by law along with a bunch of other things.
Because it’s required to send it to them without them asking…
Please Keep it Civil
They don't "require" it, but it's the landlord's way of showing that the property is safe, which is why the government made it a legal requirement to provide one. The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), on the other hand, is "required" by the tenant so they can compare the property's running costs (in theory) when shopping for rentals.
It's hardly a burdensome exercise.