# The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 41: Completion certificate applications: consultation

Extent: E+W

(1) Before determining a completion certificate application, the building control authority must consult—
(a) the enforcing authority for the building where the work is—
(i) HRB work or a stage of HRB work,
(ii) category A work, or
(iii) category B work and Part B of Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations imposes requirements in relation to the work, and
(b) the sewerage undertaker for the building where paragraph H4 of Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations imposes requirements in relation to the work.
(2) Where the building control authority is required to consult a person under this regulation the building control authority—
(a) must give the person sufficient plans to show whether the work, as built, complies with—
(i) in the case of the enforcing authority, the applicable requirements of Part B (fire safety) of Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations, and
(ii) in the case of the sewerage undertaker, the requirements of paragraph H4 of Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations;
(b) must not determine the application until the end of 15 working days beginning with the date the consultation starts or such longer period as the building control authority and the person consulted agree in writing.
(3) In relation to the consultation under paragraph (1)(a), the plans must include—
(a) the fire and emergency file, or
(b) for category B work, the fire safety compliance information.
(4) If all persons consulted express their views before the end of the period referred to in paragraph (2)(b), the prohibition against determining the application ceases to apply on the day after the date on which the last view is received by the building control authority.
(5) The building control authority is not required to consult under this regulation where it is satisfied following consideration of the application there are sufficient grounds to reject the application.
(6) In this regulation “category A work” and “category B work” have the meaning given in regulation 12(6).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/regulation/41 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-41
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