{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-approved-inspectors-etc-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Initial notice",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed form of an initial notice—\n(a) which is not combined with a plans certificate, shall be form 1 in Schedule 2; or\n(b) which is combined with a plans certificate, shall be form 4 in Schedule 2.\n(2) An initial notice shall be accompanied by the plans and documents described in the relevant form prescribed by paragraph (1).\n(3) The grounds on which a local authority shall reject an initial notice are those prescribed in Schedule 3.\n(4) The period within which a local authority may give notice of rejection of an initial notice is five days beginning with the day on which the notice is given.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 47 of the Building Act 1984."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2532/regulation/8",
    "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."
}