{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments concerning building and buildings and related matters.\n[31st October 1984]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(1)(xlvii), Sch. 8 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 1(2)(xxxi), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58 and by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(1)(3), Sch. 16 para. 1(xxxix), Sch. 17 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(xxxv); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: functions transferred (W.) (1.7.1999) except in relation to specified provisions by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified (3.5.2007) by National Assembly for Wales Commission (Crown Status) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1118), art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Portsmouth Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1217), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act: functions transferred (31.12.2011) by Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No.2) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3019), arts. 2(a), 5 (with arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act: functions transferred (W.) (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), ss. 54(1)(2), 71(4) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.9.2022) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 129(5), 170(5); S.I. 2022/927, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Act continued (temp.) for specified purposes (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 21"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:04.213182+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}