{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-procedure-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-procedure-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Consideration of completion certificate",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), on receipt of a completion certificate the verifier shall proceed forthwith to consider the completion certificate and shall within the period of 14 days beginning with the date of receipt notify the person who submitted the certificate of its acceptance or rejection.\n(2) In relation to a completion certificate submitted under section 17(4) of the Act, on receipt thereof the verifier shall proceed to consider the completion certificate in accordance with the provisions of regulation 9(1)(ii).\n(3) Where a verifier accepts a completion certificate the verifier must send an acceptance in such form as the verifier thinks fit to the person who submitted the certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/167",
      "affecting_title": "The Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/428/regulation/44",
    "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."
}