{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-11V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-11V.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2214",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/11V",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11V",
  "heading": "Considerations before a person carries out work: Wales",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a person (P) is proposing to use any person (A) to carry out any building work or design work.\n(2) Before permitting A to carry out any work—\n(a) P must take all reasonable steps to satisfy themself that A—\n(i) fulfils the requirements in regulation 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales), or\n(ii) is an individual who is in training to fulfil the requirements in regulation 11W(1) and (2) and arrangements have been put in place to supervise A, and\n(b) where the work relates to a higher-risk building, P must—\n(i) ask A whether a serious sanction has occurred, in relation to them, within the 5 years ending on the date of the appointment, and\n(ii) consider any information available to P relating to any misconduct of A (including any serious sanction).\n(3) Before permitting A to undertake any work, P must additionally take all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that A is able to fulfil the duties of regulation 11Z1 (general duty: Wales).\n(4) Where A is to be appointed as the principal designer, the client must take all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that A fulfils the requirements in regulations 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales) and 11X(1) (competence: principal designer: Wales) in relation to the design work.\n(5) Where A is to be appointed as the principal contractor, the client must take all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that A fulfils the requirements in regulations 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales) and 11Y(1) (competence: principal contractor: Wales) in relation to the building work.\n(6) Any request to undertake any building work or any design work must not be accepted by A if A does not satisfy the requirements in regulation 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales) at the time of the appointment (except where those requirements do not apply to A by virtue of regulation 11W(3)).\n(7) A must not act—\n(a) as the principal designer in relation to any design work if A does not satisfy the requirements in regulations 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales) and 11X(1) (competence: principal designer: Wales) at the time of the appointment as the principal designer;\n(b) as the principal contractor in relation to any building work if A does not satisfy the requirements in regulations 11W(1) and (2) (competence: general requirement: Wales) and 11Y(1) (competence: principal contractor: Wales) at the time of the appointment as the principal contractor.\n(8) In this regulation “serious sanction” means—\n(a) the issue to A of a compliance notice which referred to contravention or likely contravention of a requirement of Part A (structure) or Part B (fire safety) of Schedule 1;\n(b) the issue to A of a stop notice;\n(c) the conviction of A for any offence under—\n(i) the Act;\n(ii) the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n(iii) the Building Safety Act 2022;\n(iv) the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005;\n(d) a report published by an inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 finds that A’s action or inaction resulted in one or more deaths or was likely to have been a contravention of any requirement of—\n(i) the Act;\n(ii) Part A (structure) or Part B (fire safety) of Schedule 1;\n(iii) the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n(iv) the Building Safety Act 2022;\n(v) the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.",
  "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/11V",
    "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."
}