{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-92",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/section-92.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "section/92",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Form of documents.",
  "text": "(1) All—\n(a) notices, orders, consents, demands and other documents authorised or required by or under this Act to be given, made or issued by a local authority or the regulator, and\n(b) notices and applications authorised or required by or under this Act to be given or made to, or to any officer of, a local authority or the regulator,\nshall be in writing.\n(2) The appropriate national authority may, by regulations ..., prescribe the form of any notice, advertisement, certificate or other document to be used for any of the purposes of this Act, and if forms are so prescribed those forms or forms to the like effect may be used in all cases to which those forms are applicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 92(1) 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. 57(2); S.I. 2023/993, reg. 2(n)(xxiv) (with reg. 4); S.I. 2024/207, reg. 2(d)(xi), Sch. (with regs. 3, 4, 8-12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 92(2) substituted (28.6.2022 for E., 5.9.2023 for W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), s. 170(4)(b)(c), Sch. 5 para. 57(3)(a); S.I. 2022/561, reg. 3(f), Sch. para. 32; S.I. 2023/914, reg. 2(b)(xiii), Sch. para. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 92(2) omitted (28.6.2022 for E., 5.9.2023 for W.) by virtue of Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), s. 170(4)(b)(c), Sch. 5 para. 57(3)(b); S.I. 2022/561, reg. 3(f), Sch. para. 32; S.I. 2023/914, reg. 2(b)(xiii), Sch. para. 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/section/92",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:04.213182+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}