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Regulation 18 Amendments to the Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2024I1

England and Wales

(1)

The Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2024f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3(2) (building control authorities: restricted activities and functions)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (b), for “passing or rejecting plans under section 16 of the 1984 Act (passing or rejection of plans) including exercising, in relation to such plans” substitute “determining an application for building control approval under regulation 14D (determination of applications for building control approval with full plans: Wales) of the 2010 Regulations and regulation 7 (building control approval applications for HRB work or stage of HRB work: decisions) and regulation 15 (building control approval applications for work to existing HRB: decisions) of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025, including exercising, in relation to such an application, a power in—”

(b)

after paragraph (o) insert—

“(p)

giving approval, that staged higher-risk building work, may proceed beyond a point specified in a requirement imposed in the approval of that work;

(q)

determining a change control application for higher-risk building work;

(r)

determining is a controlled change to a higher-risk building work is a notifiable or major change;

(s)

giving a compliance notice under section 35B of the 1984 Act (compliance notices);

(t)

giving a stop notice under section 35C of the 1984 Act (stop notices);

(u)

determining a completion certificate under regulation 40 of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (completion certificate applications: time limit);

(v)

determining a partial completion certificate under regulation 44 of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (partial completion certificates);

(w)

an application of regularisation of unauthorised building work under regulation 46 of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (regularisation of unauthorised building work).”

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 18 in force at 1.7.2026, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2024/238 (W. 48), as amended by 2024/1268 (W. 214).