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The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

S.I. 1996/1906 · Made 22 July 1996

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BUILDING AND BUILDINGS

Made 22nd July 1996

Laid before Parliament 24th July 1996

Coming into force 14th October 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1), 16(9), 17(1) and (6), 47(1), (2), (3) and (4), 49(5), 51A and paragraphs 1(b), 2(d), 3, 7 and 10 of Schedule 1 to the Building Act 1984f1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1984 c. 55.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and Commencement
  2. 2Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  5. 5Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  6. 6Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  7. 7Transitional provisions
  8. Signature
  9. Schedule (Prescribed form of Amendment notice)
  10. Explanatory note

1Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 14th October 1996.

2Amendments to the Principal Regulations

The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1985f1 (“the 1985 regulations”) shall be amended as follows.

3Amendments to the Principal Regulations

In regulation 6(4), for the words “that person” there shall be substituted the words “an approved inspector whose approval has been withdrawn”.

4Amendments to the Principal Regulations

After regulation 8, there shall be inserted the following regulation:—

“Amendment notice

8A
(1)

The prescribed form of an amendment notice shall be form 1A in Schedule 2.

(2)

An amendment notice shall be accompanied by:—

(a)

the plans and documents described in the notes to those forms, and

(b)

a declaration signed by the insurer that a named scheme of insurance approved by the Secretary of State applies in relation to the work described in the notice.

(3)

The grounds on which a local authority are required to reject an amendment notice are those prescribed in paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 3.

(4)

The period within which a local authority may give notice of rejection of an amendment notice is five working days beginning with the day on which the notice is given.

(5)

Any reference in these Regulations to an initial notice or to an initial notice combined with a plans certificate shall in an appropriate case be construed as a reference to that initial notice as amended by an amendment notice which has been accepted by a local authority.”.

5Amendments to the Principal Regulations

In regulation 28, in paragraph (1)(a), after the words “initial notices”, there shall be inserted the words, “amendment notices, notices under section 51C of the Act”.

6Amendments to the Principal Regulations

In Schedule 2, after Form 1, there shall be inserted Form 1A which is set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

7Transitional provisions

These Regulations shall not apply in relation to any work in respect of which an initial notice has been given and accepted by a local authority, before 14th October 1996 and, whilst such a notice continues in force, the 1985 regulations shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not been made.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Robert Jones

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

22nd July 1996

(Prescribed form of Amendment notice)

FORM 1A

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulation 1985 (the principal regulations) as a consequence of the Deregulation (Building) (Initial Notices and Final Certificates) Order 1996. That Order, amongst other things, provides for an amendment to an initial notice by way of an amendment notice.

These regulations amend the principal regulations by prescribing (as Form 1A) the form of amendment notice. They also prescribe the documents which must accompany an amendment notice and the grounds on which a local authority are required to reject such a notice and introduce in Regulation 8A the prescribed form of amendment notice which has the effect, once accepted by the local authority, of amending the initial notice.

These regulations also amend the principal regulations by providing in regulation 6(4) that a person who has been convicted of an offence and has had his approval withdrawn may not be given a further approval as an approved inspector for a period of five years beginning with the date of his conviction.