{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/482",
  "legislation_title": "Building (Prescribed Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-prescribed-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Exemption from inspection fees and building notice fees",
  "text": "(1) Only one inspection fee or building notice fee may be charged by a district council for all relevant work inspected on the same occasion and, where an inspection of any relevant work has been carried out, a district council shall not charge a fee for the inspection on any subsequent occasion of that work or other relevant work.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “relevant work” means—\n(a) in the case of the erection of a small domestic building—\n(i) the erection of that building;\n(ii) the execution of works or the installation of services or fittings in connection with the erection of that building; or\n(iii) the erection, in connection with the erection of that building, of a garage or carport or both;\n(b) in the case of the erection of a building in relation to which the fees are specified in entry 1 in the Table in Schedule 2 (certain small garages and carports)—\n(i) the erection of that building; or\n(ii) the execution of works or installation of services or fittings in connection with the erection of that building;\n(c) in the case of works for which the fees are specified in entry 2 in the Table in Schedule 2 (installation of an unvented hot water storage system) the execution of those works;\n(d) in the case of an alteration or extension to a building in relation to which the fees are specified in entries 3 to 6 in the Table in Schedule 2 (extensions and alterations to certain small domestic buildings)—\n(i) the alteration or extension of that building; or\n(ii) the execution of works or installation of services or fittings in connection with that alteration or extension; ...\n(e) in the case of works which are specified in entries 7 to 9 in the Table in Schedule 2 (provision or installation of certain fixed building services) the execution of those works; or\n(f) in any other case, work the cost of which is included in the estimate referred to in regulation 12(2) or work substantially the same as that included in the estimate.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 10(2)(d)(ii) deleted (8.4.2013) by Building (Prescribed Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/60), regs. 1, 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 10(2)(e)(f) substituted for reg. 10(2)(e) (8.4.2013) by Building (Prescribed Fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/60), regs. 1, 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in operation at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/482/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:24.315983+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."
}