# The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 10: Notification of emergency repairs to existing HRB

Extent: E+W

(1) Where work to existing HRB consists only of emergency repairs and it is not practicable to comply with regulation 11 before starting the work, the client must—
(a) give a notice to that effect to the building control authority, describing the work and the reasons for the urgency as soon as reasonably practicable after the work has started,
(b) send a copy of that notice to the responsible person as soon as reasonably practicable after the work has started, and
(c) submit a regularisation certificate application to the building control authority in relation to the work as soon as reasonably practicable after the work is carried out.
(2) In this regulation, “emergency repairs” means repairs to a building which are necessary to be carried out as a matter of urgency due to the risk to health, safety or welfare of persons in or about the building.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-10
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