{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-45.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/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Inspections etc.",
  "text": "The building control authority for any building or proposed building in relation to that building or proposed building 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 building control authority;\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. 45 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/45",
    "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."
}