Regulation 3 Amendments to regulation 2I1

in the appropriate places insert—

• ““application for building control approval with full plans” means an application for building control approval^f1 under regulations 12(2)(b) and 14;”;

• ““building control approval” has the meaning given by paragraph 1B of Schedule 1 to the Act;”;

• ““building control authority” has the meaning given in section 121A of the Act;”;

• ““business” means a trade, business or other undertaking (whether for profit or not);”;

• ““client” means any person for whom a project is carried out;”;

• ““completion certificate application” has the meaning given in regulation 39(1) of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025^f2;”;

• ““construction phase” means the period beginning when any building work on a project starts and ending when that project is completed;”;

• ““contractor” means any person (including a client, but not a domestic client) who, in the course of a business, carries out, manages or controls any building work;”;

• ““design work” means the design of any building work;”;

• ““designer” means any person (including a client, contractor or other person referred to in Part 2B of these Regulations) who in the course of a business—

  1. (a)

     carries out any design work, or

  2. (b)

     arranges for, or instructs, any person under their control to do so;”;

• ““domestic client” means a client for whom a project is being carried out which is not in the course or furtherance of a business of that client;”;

• ““higher-risk building” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the Building Safety (Description of Higher-Risk Building) (Design and Construction Phase) (Wales) Regulations 2023^f3;”;

• ““higher-risk building work” means any work relating to higher-risk building or a proposed higher-risk building, including—

  1. (a)

     any work relating to a building that is not a higher-risk building that causes it to become such a building, and

  2. (b)

     any work relating to a higher-risk building that causes it to cease to be such a building.”;

• ““principal contractor” means—

  1. (a)

     the contractor appointed under regulation 11U (principal designer and principal contractor) to perform the duties of a principal contractor under these Regulations, or

  2. (b)

     a person assigned under regulation 11T(1) (domestic clients), including where a domestic client assigns themselves to perform the duties of a principal contractor under these Regulations;”;

• ““principal designer” means—

  1. (a)

     the designer appointed under regulation 11U (principal designer and principal contractor) to perform the duties of a principal designer under these Regulations, or

  2. (b)

     a person assigned under regulation 11T(1) (domestic clients), including where a domestic client assigns themselves to perform the duties of a principal contractor under these Regulations;”;

• ““project” means a project which includes or is intended to include any building work and includes all planning work, design work, management or other work involved in a project until the end of the construction phase;”;

• ““recipient”, in relation to a compliance notice or a stop notice, means the person to whom the notice will be or has been given;”;

• ““sole contractor” means a person fulfilling the duties of the principal contractor by virtue of regulation 11U(6);”;

• ““sole or lead designer” means a person fulfilling the duties of the principal designer by virtue of regulation 11U(7);”;

• ““working day” means any day which is not Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971^f4;”;

omit the definition of “full plans”.