{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions in relation to plans deposited or initial notices given before 1 July 2026",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where before 1 July 2026—\n(a) an initial notice, in relation to HRB work or work to existing HRB for a particular building, has been given to a local authority and before that date is accepted or conclusively presumed to be accepted under section 47 of the 1984 Act, or\n(b) full plans, in relation to HRB work or work to existing HRB for a particular building, were deposited with a local authority.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies—\n(a) in a case where full plans have been deposited—\n(i) Parts 2 to 6 of these Regulations do not apply to that work, and\n(ii) the 2010 Regulations continue to apply to that work, including the amendments made to the 2010 Regulations by the Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (No.2) (Wales) Regulations 2025, but subject to Part 4 (transitional, supplementary and saving provisions) of those Regulations;\n(b) in a case where an initial notice has been given—\n(i) Parts 2 to 6 of these Regulations do not apply to that work, and\n(ii) the 2010 Regulations and the Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2024 continue to apply to that work, including the amendments made to those Regulations by the Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 but subject to Part 4 (transitional, supplementary and saving provisions) of those Regulations.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) ceases to apply where—\n(a) full plans are rejected by the local authority with whom they were deposited in accordance with any provision of Part 1 of the 1984 Act,\n(b) the approval for the work lapses by virtue of section 32 of the 1984 Act (as that provision had effect immediately before 1 July 2026), or\n(c) the initial notice or the part of that notice which relates to the HRB work or work to existing HRB is cancelled under section 52(5) of the 1984 Act (as that provision had effect immediately before 1 July 2026),\nand Parts 2 to 6 of these Regulations apply instead to the work.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.7.2026, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/1320 (W. 215)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2024/1268 (W. 214)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}