{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-5C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-5C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Building regulations may, in relation to any work, impose competence requirements on—\n(a) any appointed person, or\n(b) any prescribed person.\n(2) A “competence requirement” is a requirement relating to—\n(a) the skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours of an individual;\n(b) the capability of a person other than an individual to perform its functions under building regulations.\n(3) The regulations may require an appointed person who is not an individual to give an individual acting under its control who has the appropriate skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours the task of managing its functions as an appointed person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5C and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2023 except in relation to W., 5.9.2023 for W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 35, 170(4)(b)(c); S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(n); S.I. 2023/914, reg. 2(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/7",
      "affecting_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/7",
      "affecting_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/schedule/1/paragraph/5C",
    "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."
}