You are selling your German house. The existing Feuerstättenbescheid still lists works with ongoing time periods. The parties to the sale would like to briefly discuss this at the handover appointment. It is not sufficient to file the notice as just any old heating document in a folder: it belongs in the preparation with its actual completion status.
Record notice and performed work separately
Our editorial recommendation: assign the existing version of the notice to the installations specified within it. Note for each open item the actual period stated and any existing evidence of completion. An invoice, an appointment and a confirmed proof receive different designations.
§ 14a SchfHwG describes, among other things, the works contained in the Feuerstättenbescheid and their start and end dates. Paragraph 5 provides that the notice also applies for and against the legal successor. [SCHFH-1-14A] The planned sale is therefore not a general justification for treating the specified works as irrelevant.
Link the change of ownership with the responsible contact
§ 1 SchfHwG regulates the owner’s obligations and in paragraph 2 the notification of the new owner after the transfer of ownership to the competent authorised district chimney sweep. [SCHFH-1-14A] A private handover appointment is not equated with every legally relevant point in time of ownership without examination.
This article does not create an official notification and does not decide when, in an individual case, which party owes which step. The parties to the sale coordinate the actual procedure in good time with the competent authority and, if applicable, their contractual advisors.
An invented work period spanning the handover
In the example a work period lies partly before and partly after the desired handover day. The seller has already contacted a company, but has not yet obtained a confirmed execution date. The buyer, by contrast, believes that all works have been completed.
She makes the notice, existing communications and the actual status available together. The parties clarify who organises practical access and the commission on an appropriate basis and how execution will be evidenced. A merely discussed plan is not passed on as an existing certificate.
Do not present a private cost arrangement as an authority decision
Which costs are borne between seller and buyer may be a separate contractual matter. This article does not determine a flat allocation by days. A private payment clause is also not described as an automatically amended notice.
For an unresolved item the competent authority is asked with the specific installation and notice details. The article does not replace a technical assessment, defect rectification or legal remedies advice. It does not state any newly invented deadline due to the sale.
Hand over with a comprehensible completion status
Give the buyer the relevant version of the notice and the assigned proofs in an appropriate way. Explicitly designate remaining open processes. This allows further processing to start from the actual status, without a task in progress being lost between two folders during the change of ownership.