{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-52.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/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Section 30A applications: determinations",
  "text": "(1) A section 30A application is to be determined by written representations.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must give the building control authority the opportunity to make written representations in relation to a section 30A application.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may give any other person an opportunity to make written representations in relation to a section 30A application.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may, by notice in writing, require the building control authority to provide specified information, or provide copies of specified documents, by the date specified in the notice.\n(5) The date specified in the notice in paragraph (4) must be at least 10 working days after the day the notice is given.\n(6) Before determining a section 30A application, the Welsh Ministers may hold such meetings with the applicant, the building control authority or any other person, and undertake such visits, testing or inspections, as the Welsh Ministers considers appropriate.\n(7) The Welsh Ministers’ decision must be given in writing to the applicant (and where the applicant is not the client, also give a copy of the decision to the client).\n(8) The Welsh Ministers must send a copy of the Welsh Ministers’ decision to the building control authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 in force at 1.7.2026, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30A(7) of the 1984 Act provides that to determine a section 30A application, the 1984 Act and the building regulations apply in relation to the Welsh Ministers as they apply to the building control authority."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/regulation/52",
    "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."
}