{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2000/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2000/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2531",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Completion certificates",
  "text": "(1) A local authority shall give a completion certificate in accordance with this regulation and as provided for in paragraph (2) where—\n(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\n(b) they have either—\n(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\n(ii) been requested, in accordance with regulation 14(5), to give a completion certificate.\n(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.\n(3) In this regulation “relevant requirements” mean—\n(a) in a case mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(i), the applicable requirements of Part B of Schedule 1 (fire safety); and\n(b) in a case mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(ii), any applicable requirements of Schedule 1.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/991",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3318",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1219",
      "affecting_title": "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1541",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2531/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:20:24.293933+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."
}