{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-england-regulations-2023/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-england-regulations-2023/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Inspections etc",
  "text": "In relation to any building or proposed building for which the regulator is the building control authority, the regulator may take such steps as it considers appropriate to check compliance with all applicable requirements of the building regulations, including—\n(a) requiring information;\n(b) requiring the laying open of building work for inspection by the regulator;\n(c) requiring an inspection to be undertaken and the record of the inspection provided.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/909/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:28.011605+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."
}