Regulation 17 Completion certificates

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg 17 am by Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) 2007 reg 8, sch 2
reg 17 am (with transtl provns) by Building and Approved Inspectors 2006 reg 2
reg. 17(3)(b) words substituted by Building and Approved Inspectors 2009 reg. 2(8)
reg. 17(1)(b)(i) substituted by Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) 2005 Sch. 3 para. 6(4)

(1)

A local authority shall give a completion certificate in accordance with this regulation and as provided for in paragraph (2) where—

(a)

they receive a notice under regulation 15(4) or (5) that building work has been completed, or, that a building has been partly occupied before completion; and

(b)

they have either—

(i)

been notified, in accordance with regulation 14(4), that the building is put or is intended to be put to a use which is a relevant use as defined by regulation 12(1); or

(ii)

been requested, in accordance with regulation 14(5), to give a completion certificate.

(2)

Where in relation to any building work or, as the case may be, to any part of a building which has been occupied before completion, a local authority have been able to ascertain, after taking all reasonable steps, that the relevant requirements of Schedule 1 specified in the certificate have been satisfied, they shall give a certificate to that effect.

(3)

In this regulation “relevant requirements” mean—

(a)

in a case mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(i), the applicable requirements of Part B of Schedule 1 (fire safety); and

(b)

in a case mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(ii), any applicable requirements of Schedule 1.

(4)

A certificate given in accordance with this regulation shall be evidence (but not conclusive evidence) that the requirements specified in the certificate have been complied with.