{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-113",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-113.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "section/113",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "113",
  "heading": "Prosecution of offences.",
  "text": "Proceedings in respect of an offence created by or under this Act shall not, without the written consent of the Attorney General, be taken by any person other than—\n(a) a party aggrieved, or\n(b) a local authority , the regulator, the Welsh Ministers, the Counsel General to the Welsh Government or a body whose function it is to enforce the provision in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 113(b) inserted (1.10.2023 except in relation to W., 6.4.2024 for W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), s. 170(4)(b)(c), Sch. 5 para. 73; S.I. 2023/993, reg. 2(n)(xxvii); S.I. 2024/207, reg. 2(d)(xi), Sch. (with regs. 3, 4, 8-12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/section/113",
    "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."
}