{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2768",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations shall not apply where–\n(a) before 1st June 1992 a building notice has been given to, or full plans deposited with, a local authority, or an initial notice or a public body’s notice has been given in accordance with sections 47(1) and 54(1) respectively of the Act;\n(b) building work is carried out after that date in accordance with any such notice or plans, whether with or without any departure from them; or\n(c) before 1st June 1992 any of the events referred to in regulation 4 of the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1985), or regulation 4 of the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1987 has occurred (both of these regulations contain transitional provisions),\nand the Building Regulations 1985, and (as the case may be) the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1985 and 1987, shall continue to apply to such a notice, plans, work, building or structure as if these regulations had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1936 as amended by S.I. 1987/798."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/798."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1065 the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/1576, 1985/1936, 1987/798, 1987/1445 and 1989/1119."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2768/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:03.693485+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."
}