{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-11R",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-11R.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2214",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/11R",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11R",
  "heading": "Suitable arrangements to ensure compliance with requirements etc.: Wales",
  "text": "(1) A client must make suitable arrangements for planning, managing and monitoring a project (including allocation of sufficient time and other resources) to ensure compliance with all relevant requirements.\n(2) Arrangements under paragraph (1) are suitable if—\n(a) they ensure that the design work is carried out so that the building work to which the design relates, if built, would be in compliance with all relevant requirements,\n(b) they ensure the building work is carried out in accordance with all relevant requirements,\n(c) they enable the designers and contractors to cooperate with each other to ensure compliance with all relevant requirements, and\n(d) they provide for periodic review of the building work (and the design work) included or to be included in the project to identify whether it is higher-risk building work.\n(3) A client must ensure that the arrangements under paragraph (1) are maintained and reviewed throughout the project.\n(4) A client must provide building information as soon as is practicable to every designer and contractor on the project.\n(5) A client must cooperate with any other person working on or in relation to a project to the extent necessary to enable any person with a duty or function under these Regulations to fulfil that duty or function.\n(6) Where there is more than one client in relation to a project—\n(a) the clients may agree in writing which of them is to be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as the client;\n(b) except for the duties specified in sub-paragraph (c), only the person who agreed to be treated as the client under sub-paragraph (a) is subject to the duties owed by a client under these Regulations;\n(c) the duties in the following provisions are owed by all clients—\n(i) paragraph (4) to the extent that those duties relate to information in the possession of the client or which is reasonably obtainable by or on behalf of the client,\n(ii) paragraph (5), and\n(iii) regulation 11S (arrangements as to information: higher-risk building work).\n(7) In this section—\n“building information” means information in the client’s possession or which is reasonably obtainable by or on behalf of the client, which is relevant to the building work or the design work, including information about—\n(a)the work;\n(b)planning and management of the project;\n(c)issues relating to compliance with any relevant requirement and how they were addressed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2B inserted (W.) (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 5 (with reg. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2214/regulation/11R",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:48.980832+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."
}