{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1321",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Completion certificate applications: time limit",
  "text": "(1) Where the building control authority receives a completion certificate application in relation to HRB work, a stage of HRB work or work to existing HRB which is valid, the building control authority must—\n(a) determine it within 8 weeks beginning with the date the application is received by the building control authority, or\n(b) within such longer period as at any time the building control authority and the applicant agree in writing.\n(2) A completion certificate application is valid if it complies with regulation 39.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 1.7.2026, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:17.663493+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."
}