{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-51C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-51C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "section/51C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51C",
  "heading": "Change of person intending to carry out work",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where it is proposed that the work to which an initial notice relates should be carried out by a different person.\n(2) If—\n(a) the registered building control approver who gave the initial notice, and\n(b) the person who now proposes to carry out the work to which the initial notice relates,\njointly give written notice of the proposal to the local authority by whom the initial notice was accepted, the initial notice shall be treated as showing as the person intending to carry out the work to which it relates the person mentioned in the notice under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 51A, 51B, 51C inserted (14.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/1905, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 51C(2)(a) substituted (6.4.2024 except in relation to W., 6.4.2024 for W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), s. 170(4)(b)(c), Sch. 4 para. 9; S.I. 2024/104, reg. 2(b) (with reg. 3); S.I. 2024/207, reg. 2(d)(x) (with regs. 3, 4, 6, 8-12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/section/51C",
    "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."
}