{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-procedure-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-procedure-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/428",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-procedure-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Evaluation of performance of verifiers and certifiers",
  "text": "(1) A verifier or certifier appointed under section 7(1) of the Act and a scheme having approval under section 7(2) of the Act shall if required by the Scottish Ministers provide them with such information as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary to enable them to evaluate the discharge of functions by the verifier, certifier or members of the scheme.\n(2) If as a result of the evaluation the Scottish Ministers consider it necessary they may appoint a person to investigate the discharge of functions by the verifier or certifier or members of the scheme and to prepare a report thereon.\n(3) A copy of any report prepared following such an investigation shall be sent to the verifier, certifier or members of the scheme to whose functions the report relates and the verifier, certifier or any such member shall be given an opportunity to make written representations and the Scottish Ministers shall, in the event of any such written representations being made, consider these.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/428/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:29.031196+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."
}