134 Duties relating to work to dwellings etc

134  Duties relating to work to dwellings etc

(1)     In the Defective Premises Act 1972 after section 2 insert—

“2A Duties relating to work to dwellings etc

(1)     This section applies where a person, in the course of a business, takes on work in relation to any part of a relevant building.

(2)     In this section “relevant building” means a building consisting of or containing one or more dwellings.

(3)     The person owes a duty to—

(a)     the person for whom the work is done, and

(b)     each person who holds or acquires an interest (whether legal or equitable) in a dwelling in the building,

to see that the work is done in a workmanlike or (as

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