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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-approved-inspectors-etc-regulations-2000/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2532",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-approved-inspectors-etc-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Functions of approved inspectors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an approved inspector by whom an initial notice has been given shall, so long as the notice continues in force, take such steps as are reasonable to enable him to be satisfied within the limits of professional skill and care that—\n(a) regulations 4 and 6 of the Principal Regulations are complied with,\n(b) satisfactory provision is made for the conveyance of—\n(i) refuse water, and\n(ii) rain water from roofs,\nfrom any building or extension of a building to the sewer, cesspool or other place shown on the plans which accompanied the initial notice, and\n(c) the requirements of regulation 12 of these Regulations are complied with.\n(2) In a case where any requirement of Part L of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is to be complied with by the insertion of insulating material into the cavity in a wall after that wall has been constructed, the approved inspector need not supervise the insertion of the insulating material but shall state in the final certificate whether or not at the date of that certificate the material has been inserted.\n(3) Where an approved inspector by whom an initial notice has been given becomes aware that work is being carried out over a sewer shown on the relative map of sewers, he shall, unless information about that work was given to the local authority with the initial notice, as soon as practicable notify the local authority of the location of that work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting_title": "The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
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      "type": "rev in pt (1.4.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3336",
      "affecting_title": "The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
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      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2010/719",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/719",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1219",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1219",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (subject to transtl provn(s)) (1.7.2003) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2872",
      "affecting_title": "The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2532/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:20:24.003156+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."
}