How long does a Healthy Homes certificate last?

There's no certificate with a fixed expiry date, since no official Healthy Homes certificate exists. What matters instead is how current a Healthy Homes assessment is when it's relied on. The Tenancy Tribunal has treated assessment age as significant: where the age of an assessment was raised as an issue in a dispute, landlords lost at a notably higher rate than where it wasn't raised. An assessment conducted more than two years before a hearing has regularly been treated as unreliable evidence of current compliance, particularly where conditions may have changed. There's no fixed rule stating an assessment expires after a set period, but a reasonable guide is that an assessment older than two years, or one predating any known change to the property, should be renewed before it's relied on.